narrowing down my weather Q?

Question

I don't get how warm fronts and cold fronts make percipitation
oh, btw, i have 2 make a weather report

Answer 1

Hi again Amy. BTW I answered how the cold fronts make precipitation in my answer to your first attempt at this question. Now let me explain warm fronts. When a low pressure center forms on a front that part of the front to the east of the low becomes a warm front. In other words instead of continuing to move south and replace warm air ahead of it, it retreats northward while the cold front to the west of the low continues to push south. Now the low with its counterclockwise circulation will bring warm moist air up over the retreating warm front which cools as it is lifted and this is what forms clouds and rain or snow. And again, as the cold front replaces warm moist air ahead of it and pushes that air up and over the front the air is cooled and forms clouds and precipitation along the cold front. Try to make a sketch of what I have described or ask your mom or dad to do this for you and perhaps you will get a better understanding of the frontal weather. Good luck.

Answer 2

A weather front is air of one temp. replacing air of another temp. A cold front is colder than the air it is pushing out, even if it is only one degree. The reverse is true for a warm front. They both cause rain by lifting air higher into the atmosphere, where it cools and the water condenses out as rain.