Backing Winds

Question 1

What is backing wind?

Answer 1

• Wind changing in an anticlockwise direction .

Question 2

What is veering wind?

Answer 2

• Wind changing in a clockwise direction

Question 3

What is a Cold Front?

Answer 3

• Boundary line between the warm sector and the cold air following behind as the depression moves along its path.

A.k.a. there is cold air behind a cold front .

Question 4

What is a warm front?

Answer 4

• boundary line between the warmer of a warm sector and the cold air in front of it.

A.k.a. there is warm air behind a warm front .

Question 5

What is an occluded front?

Answer 5

• It’s when the cold front catches the warm front it’s called an occluded front.

In a depression cold Fronts move faster than warm Fronts

Question 6

What is a stationary front?

Answer 6

• when two air masses meet and neither is strong enough to top.