cold fronts
Temperature-dropping air masses
Cold fronts is the plural of cold front, a weather boundary where a mass of cold air advances into warmer air.
Cold fronts typically bring sudden temperature drops, wind shifts, and precipitation—often thunderstorms in summer.
A series of cold fronts swept through the Midwest last week.
Weather maps show them as blue lines with triangular points indicating direction of movement.
- tornadoesRotating destructive wind columns
- blizzardsViolent prolonged winter storms
- lake effect snowMoisture from unfrozen bodies
- Alberta clipperFast-moving winter storm
- isobarsEqual-pressure contour lines
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