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Atsc final pt2

A true cold front on a weather map is always followed by cooler air. The rising of warm air up and over cold air is called Overrunning. What type of weather front would be responsible for the following weather forecast: "Increasing high cloudiness and cold this morning. Clouds increasing and lowering this afternoon with a chance of snow or rain tonight. Precipitation ending tomorrow morning. Turning much warmer. Winds light easterly today becoming southeasterly tonight and southwesterly tomorrow." warm front. One would expect a cP air mass to be cold and dry. When an upper-level low lies directly above a surface low The surface low will probably weaken What type of weather front would be responsible for the following weather forecast: "Increasing cloudiness and warm today with the possibility of showers by this evening. Turning much colder tonight. Winds southwesterly becoming gusty and shifting to northwesterly by tonight." cold front. What type of air mass would be responsible for snow showers on the western slopes of the Rockies? mP. The type of weather system known as a 'mid-latitude cyclone' cannot form over the tropical ocean because a. surface temperature contrasts are not large b. the ocean surface has a lot of waves c. the Coriolis force is weak in the tropics d. both a and b e. both a and c both a and c. In winter, which sequence of clouds would you most likely expect to observe as a warm front with precipitation approaches your location? cirrus, cirrostratus, altostratus, nimbostratus. The greatest contrast in both temperature and moisture will occur along the boundary separating which air masses? mT and cP. Developing low pressure areas generally have _____ air near the surface and _____ air aloft. converging, diverging. What type of air mass would be responsible for hot, dry summer weather in southern Arizona? cT. According to the model of the life cycle of a wave cyclone, the storm system is normally most intense when the system first becomes occluded. A warm, moist air mass that forms over water is called mT.

For a surface storm system to intensify, the upper-level low (or trough) should be located to the ___ of the surface low. west. For cyclogenesis to occur along a frontal wave, the winds aloft directly above the wave should be diverging. Lake-effect snows are best developed around the Great Lakes during ate fall and early winter when cold, dry polar air moves over the relatively warm water. Which of the following is presently a problem with modern-day weather predictions? a. computer forecast models make assumptions about the atmosphere that are not always correct b. there are regions of the world where only space observations are available c. computer models do not always adequately interpret the surface's influence on the weather d. the distance between grid points on some models is too large to pick up smaller-scale weather features such as thunderstorms e. all of the above e. all of the above....