Cold fronts, warm fronts, and occluded fronts are all types of weather fronts that move… but what happens when one of them slows down or stalls entirely? Meteorologist Derek Witt explains. When severe ...

An occluded front is drawn in purple. It is a cold front that overtakes a warm front. They commonly occur close to a maturing low pressure system. A wide variety of weather can be found along an ...

I understand what a warm front is and what a cold front is. I often see, however, a third kind of front called an occluded front on weather maps. What is an occluded front and how is it different from ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — October is the time of year that cold fronts start to roll through South Texas regularly. Often, these fronts are weak and tend to be described as 'cool' fronts, BUT - did you ...

We hear it all the time from meteorologists. “A cold front will move in and bring storms,” or “a warm front is heading our way with light rain.” But why do we expect certain weather conditions with ...

Whenever there is an expected change in weather, you will often hear that a frontal passage is predicted to arrive soon. In general terms, there are four major types of frontal passages: cold front, ...

Having had the cheek to mention that we have an "occluded front" in the forecast today, i've been asked several times what this actually means! Of course it sounds an awful lot like techy-speak, but ...

Northern hemisphere weather maps sometimes include the following weather fronts: Cold, Warm, Occluded, Cold/Warm, Developing, Uppercold/Warm, Quasi-stationary — yet here in Oz we see only cold fronts.