GEOG 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Natural Convection, Wind Direction, Coriolis Force
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Cold fronts cold air forces warm air aloft. Air might be warm in morning/day, and cold at night. Warm fronts warm air moves up and over cold air. Stationary front air not moving anywhere. Occluded front occurs where cold air is rapidly pushing into the warm air until the warm air ends up on top of the cold air. **low pressure system leading warm front, followed by a cold front. The creation or dissipation of cold/warm front as it works its way through. May be associated with larger storms, too. For storms to form sequential development. All derived from environmental, dry, and moist adiabatic lapse rates. Almost all lightening strikes are within clouds or cloud to cloud. Lightening strikes 8000 times each day around the world. In the winter thunderstorms in the southern hemisphere. In the summer thunderstorms in the northern hemisphere. Most of the time we have tropical storms and tornadoes only hurricanes sometimes.
