Air Masses and Fronts
Air Masses and Fronts
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1. Can you identify the air masses (and their source regions) that influence the weather in the continental U.S?
2. Can you identify several air mass classifications and their characteristics?
3. Can you describe the horizontal and vertical cross sections of a cold front, a warm front, and an occluded front?
4. Can you explain the mechanism behind a lake-effect snow?
1. Why do temperatures tend to be a little higher on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains than on the western side, even though the same winter cP air mass dominates both areas?
2. Why are the boundaries between air masses more sharply defined in winter than in summer?
3. Explain why freezing rain more commonly occurs with warm fronts than with cold fronts.
4. Why does the same cold front generally produce more rain over Kentucky than over Kansas?
5. Why does barometric pressure fall with the approach
of a cold or occluded front?
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