cold front
Advancing cool air
A cold front is a weather boundary where a mass of cold air advances and pushes under warmer air, often bringing sudden temperature drops, gusty winds, and precipitation.
The term extends metaphorically to interpersonal situations: There's been a cold front between them since the argument.
Violent weather with lightning
- squall lineLinear thunderstorm formation
- downpourIntense precipitation event
- lightningAtmospheric electrical discharge
- thunderStorm's acoustic aftermath
hail · severe weather · tornadoes · wind gusts · turbulence · shelf cloud · outflow · convection
Decrease in warmth
- chillCold sensation or relaxation
- frostThin ice coating
- freezingExtremely cold
- precipitationAtmospheric water deposit
rain · drizzle · sleet · flurries · hail · overcast · nimbostratus · clouds
Atmospheric volume, consistent temperature
- polar airCold atmospheric mass
- jet streamHigh-altitude wind current
- pressure gradientSpatial variation in force
- troughOpen container for animal feed
convergence · synoptic · isobar · barometer · cyclone · anticyclone · ridge · instability
thunderstorm
Violent weather with lightning
- squall lineLinear thunderstorm formation
- downpourIntense precipitation event
- lightningAtmospheric electrical discharge
thunder · hail · severe weather · tornadoes · wind gusts · turbulence · shelf cloud · outflow · convection · instability
temperature drop
Decrease in warmth
precipitation · rain · drizzle · sleet · flurries · hail · overcast · nimbostratus · clouds · clearing
air mass
Atmospheric volume, consistent temperature
- polar airCold atmospheric mass
- jet streamHigh-altitude wind current
- pressure gradientSpatial variation in force
trough · convergence · synoptic · isobar · barometer · cyclone · anticyclone · ridge · instability · polar vortex
- Cold Expressionsbone-chilling, frigid, icy, frosty, chilly
- cold snapsfreeze, frost, arctic blast, polar vortex, hard freeze
- frontsfrontline, storefront, waterfront, beachfront, lakefront
- weather frontsoutflow boundary, squall line, ITCZ
- weather mapsweather map, climate map, temperature map, precipitation map, wind map
- atmosphereair, humidity, atmosphere, temperature, oxygen
cold frontwarm front
Advancing temperate air mass
heat wave · warming trend · hot spell · heat dome · Indian summer
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