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Show Know The Weather What happens when a cold front and a warm front meet head-on? What are the characteristics charac-teristics of the stationary front produced? A COLD front, running into a warm front with about equal momentum, stagnates and marks time. The warm front also comes to a halt and the result, where the two air masses mas-ses have met, is a stationary front. A stationary front almost always al-ways produces prolonged rain and cloud and erratic wind currents. cur-rents. Sometimes the rain lasts for many days, until one of the systems breaks through the other or another strong front . moves in. IF YOU'RE planning to fly in private aircraft, the weather map symbol of a stationary front should be highly discouraging, dis-couraging, for landing and navigating in such an arc is hazardous and often dangerous. dan-gerous. Stationary fronts occur during dur-ing the change of seasons. This spell of bad weather was called by old-timers the "turn of the seasons." |