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The boundary where two air masses argue, and the sky picks a side.
means The leading edge of an advancing weather system, where a mass of cold or warm air pushes into another and triggers rapid changes in temperature, wind, clouds, and precipitation.
from A compound of two plain old English words. 'Storm' goes back to Old English 'storm,' a tempest, with cousins across the Germanic languages. 'Front' arrived from Latin 'frons, frontis' (forehead, the foremost part) by way of French, and only took on its weather meaning in the early 20th century — meteorologists, fresh from the trenches of the First World War, borrowed the military image of a 'front' (the line where opposing forces meet) to describe the clashing boundaries of air masses. So 'stormfront' quite literally pictures the sky as a battlefield.
- meeting point
- Where warm and cold air collide violently
- cold fronts
- Steep, fast, and great at making thunderstorms
- warm fronts
- Slow, gentle, dragging hours of gray drizzle
- pressure drop
- Falling barometer warns a front is coming
- symbols
- Mapped with triangles and half-circles by meteorologists
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