An occluded front is drawn in purple. It is a cold front that overtakes a warm front. They commonly occur close to a maturing low pressure system. A wide variety of weather can be found along an ...

Whenever there is an expected change in weather, you will often hear that a frontal passage is predicted to arrive soon. In general terms, there are four major types of frontal passages: cold front, ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — October is the time of year that cold fronts start to roll through South Texas regularly. Often, these fronts are weak and tend to be described as 'cool' fronts, BUT - did you ...

I understand what a warm front is and what a cold front is. I often see, however, a third kind of front called an occluded front on weather maps. What is an occluded front and how is it different from ...

We hear it all the time from meteorologists. “A cold front will move in and bring storms,” or “a warm front is heading our way with light rain.” But why do we expect certain weather conditions with ...

Northern hemisphere weather maps sometimes include the following weather fronts: Cold, Warm, Occluded, Cold/Warm, Developing, Uppercold/Warm, Quasi-stationary — yet here in Oz we see only cold fronts.

On this week's Weather Wonders episode, Jack asked, "Why do we have different weather changes?". To answer this question, we have to look at high and low pressure systems, as well as, warm and cold ...

When you see a meteorologist do the nightly forecast, you often see the red and blue lines on the weather maps. Those are fronts -- but what are fronts, exactly? Watch the video above as Meteorologist ...

Having had the cheek to mention that we have an "occluded front" in the forecast today, i've been asked several times what this actually means! Of course it sounds an awful lot like techy-speak, but ...

When discussing the forecast, we show maps that track approaching weather system and their fronts. Let’s dive into what these symbols represent. Fronts are lines on weather maps that represent the ...