Davis County Clipper | 1981-01-07 | Page 31 | Know the Weather

Know The i Weather i Why is it that, in most areaj . : of the country, winter brings- with it so many long, rainy, : spells? - WINTER produces more . rainy spells of several days' duration than summer for several sev-eral reasons. One of the main reasons is that winter's colder earth and ever-present cold air create more of the cloud-forming cloud-forming or cooling action that ; makes for cloud and rain. ; Warm air moving into cold winter air (a warm front) can ' set up a rainy area for hun- 1 dreds of miles. Since a warm front moves forward more ; slowly than a cold front, this mass of cloud and rain takes several days to pass overhead. OCCASIONALLY a warm front or an occluded front will become stationary over an area and in winter this usually means several days of bad. rainy weather. These frontal systems are of long duration but produce little lightning and thunder.