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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

It’s a “slow weather day” on planet Earth, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing going on. This gorgeous low pressure cyclone is spinning quietly over the Hudson Bay. It will drift slowly east into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.