My Video

Over a minute long about what my project is all about.The video at the beginning is weather caused by a front that passed through Decatur.I filmed it with my camera, you can even see the flash of lightning. I'm still not 100% sure if I pronounced "Squall line" correctly. Haha.

People I've commented on.

Tara Herriage
Samantha Ashmore
Jennifer Bisidas

Question #3: How many kinds of fronts are there?

There are six types of weather fronts. The first two are the most known and common-the warm&cold fronts. An occluded front is when the cold front takes over the warm one. Stationary fronts are the boundaries of two air masses that cannot overcome one of the other and the front tends to just stay in place. Dry lines are air masses with different moisture levels, which means that one has warmer, less dense air than the dry air mass. Squall lines are cold fronts that have split into two, usually during the summer season, and can cause dangerous weather such as tornadoes.

Question #2: Why do Fronts differ from each other?

Not all fronts are exactly the same. The affect it can have on the weather of a certain place depends on the hemisphere and/or latitude and longitude. Say there was a cold front in the Northern hemisphere: The front would cause wind direction to move from the Southwest to the Southeast and causes severe storms. For warm fronts, the wind moves from the South to the Southwest and they cause brief showers.

Queston #1: What are Air Masses and Fronts?

Air masses are the volume of the air that travels over land. These bodies travel thousands of miles on the surfaces of land. Cold air masses are classified as polar/arctic and warmer ones tend to be determined as tropical due to their humidity. Fronts are the separation of different air masses. As colder fronts tend to cause severe storms like thunderstorms; warm fronts cause large amounts of fog.