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weather and climate (air pressure (blizzards (strong wind blowing snow or…

- - - - at a warm front a moving warm air mass collides with a slow moving cold air mass
    - - sometimes cold and warm air masses meet but neither one has enough force to move the other
    - - cold fronts move quickly so they can cause abrupt weather changes
    - - at an occluded front a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses
- - - - cumulus
        
        a sign of fair weather
      - nimbostratus
        
        may produce rain or snow
      - cirrus cloud
        
        made out of ice crystals
      - cumulonimbus
        
        thunder storms
- - - - westerlies are prevailing winds from the west towards the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude
    - - polar easterlies are the dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from the high pressure areas of the polar highs at the north and south poles
    - - trade winds are the prevailing of easterly surface winds found in the tropics