Show Rainy Spells Why is it in most areas of the winter brings with it so many rainy WINTER PRODUCES more rainy spells of several days' duration than summer for several One of the main reasons is that winter's colder earth and ever-present cold air creates more of the cloud-forming or cooling action that makes for cloud and Warm air moving into cold winter air warm can set up a rainy area for hundreds of Since a warm front moves forward more slowly than a cold this mass of cloud and rain takes several days to pass over OCCASIONALLY a warm front or an occluded front will become stationary over an and in winter this usually means several days of rainy These frontal systems are of long duration but rarely produce lightning and |