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Important Weather Content from Lab 15 Article (Classification of airmasses…
Important Weather Content from Lab 15 Article
Fronts
Cold Fronts
Temperature decreases.
Wind Shifts direction
Motion: Falling or staying the same
Pressure Increases.
triangles
Light to heavy precipitation.
Warm Fronts
Light to moderate precipitation.
pressure decreases
Wind shifts direction (SE to SW)
Temperature increases
Motion: Rising
semicircles
Stationary Fronts
temperature increases and decreases at different times
no wind shift
Motion: Staying the same
pressure is equal
Triangles and semicircles
Heavy precipitation
Airmasses
An air mass is a body of air in a uniform with temperature, humidity, and pressure
Formation can be represented with a colored line and or semicircles or triangles or possibly both
Classification of airmasses
Polar (P)
Arctic (A)
Continental (c)
Equatorial (E)