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| A cold front is a boundary between two air masses, one cold and the other warm, moving so that the colder air replaces the warmer air. | You're cool | A warm front is a boundary between two air masses, one cool and the other warm, moving so that the warmer air replaces the cooler air. | You're warm | A stationary front is a boundary between two air masses that more or less doesn’t move, but some stationary fronts can wobble back and forth for several hundred miles a day. | You're stationary | An occluded front is a combination of two fronts that form when a cold front catches up and overtakes a warm front. | you're occluded | Cold fronts are marked on weather maps as a blue line with triangles on it. | You're cold | Warm fronts are shown on weather maps as a red line with half circles on it. | You're warm | Stationary fronts are shown on a weather map as blue and red lines with blue triangles on one side and red half circles on other sides. | You're occluded | Occluded fronts are shown on a weather map as a purple line with half circle and triangles on the same side | You're stationary | Cold fronts usually have dry air because the colder air cannot hold as much moisture (water) as warm air. When a cold front meets a warm front, it forces the warm front up as the colder air moves underneath. The warm air cools as it rises, expands, cools and condenses, forming clouds. It will cool the warm air mass, and rain or even snow will fall ahead of the cold front. Rain, snow, thunderstorms and sometimes tornadoes are caused by a cold front. Usually the precipitation does not last very long with a cold front. | You're cold | Warm fronts form when a large mass of warm air takes over a cooler air mass. It will cause THICK clouds and rain that may last one or two days. It may be windy, but the temperature will be warm. Warm fronts usually produce rain, fog, snow that is light but steady. After the warm front moves through, warmer and milder weather follows. | You're warm | Sometimes two air masses meet and neither one takes over. This is called a stationary front. Where the warm and cold air meet, clouds and fog form, and it may rain or snow. Many days of clouds and precipitation may follow a stationary front. | You're stationary | Sometimes a large cold air mass moves quickly and crashes into a warm front. The warm air is squeezed upward and trapped between more cold air and the cold air masses. The temperature drops as the warm air mass is occluded, or “cut off,”from the ground and pushed upward. A variety of weather can be found before and after an occluded front, such as strong winds, storms and heavy precipitation. | You're occluded | A cold front is associated with this diagram. Draw the diagram on your chart. | You're cold | A warm front is associated with this diagram. Draw the diagram on your chart. | You're warm | A stationary front is associated with this diagram. Draw the diagram on your chart. | You're warm | An occluded front is associated with this diagram. Draw the diagram on your chart. | You're warm |