🔍 Key Concepts

• Warm front vs. cold front characteristics (how they form, typical wind direction, type of precipitation) • Meaning of stationary front (what happens when a front stops moving) • Typical sky conditions and visibility associated with warm, cold, and stationary fronts

💭 Think About

• Think about which type of front usually brings brief, intense thunderstorms and which brings longer periods of steady precipitation • Consider what happens to the weather when a warm air mass meets a cold air mass and neither one is strong enough to push the other out of the way • Recall the usual wind direction on the warm side versus the cold side of a frontal boundary in the U.S. mid-latitudes

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify which answer choice best matches the typical weather of a stationary or warm front (not a fast‑moving cold front) • Check for the combination of: wind direction, type of rain (steady vs. showery), and sky condition (clear, overcast, fog, thunderstorms) • Eliminate any option that clearly describes a classic strong cold front passage (rapid temperature drop, strong shifting winds, brief violent weather) rather than a warm/stationary front