🔍 Key Concepts

• Cold fronts vs. warm fronts and the type of weather each typically brings • Characteristics of thunderstorms: rapid development, heavy rain, thunder, lightning, gusty winds • How pressure systems (high vs. low) generally relate to stable vs. unstable weather

💭 Think About

• Which type of frontal passage is more likely to cause rapid, intense but short‑lived showers rather than long, steady rain? • Do high‑pressure systems usually bring stable, calm weather or unstable, stormy conditions? • Think about what kind of air movement and temperature contrast usually produces strong updrafts and thunderstorms.

✅ Before You Answer

• Match "brief, violent" with the correct frontal type—does that sound more like a narrow, fast‑moving front or a broad, slow‑moving one? • Recall that thunder and lightning are signatures of cumulonimbus clouds and strong vertical instability—what kind of front usually triggers that? • Make sure you distinguish between pressure systems (high/low) and fronts (boundaries between air masses); they are related but not the same thing.