Comments on: PLEASE HELP!!! (science)? http://hurricanequestions.com/please-help-science.htm Wed, 23 May 2012 16:06:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: cyswxman http://hurricanequestions.com/please-help-science.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12809 cyswxman Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:05:15 +0000 http://hurricanequestions.com/please-help-science.htm#comment-12809 Instead of just giving you the answers, let me try to describe mid latitude cyclones. In the northern hemisphere, a cyclone is an area of low pressure that is rotating counter-clockwise. Typically, warm air lies to its south while cooler air resides to its north. As they rotate, the cooler air is pulled southward behind them while warmer air moves northward ahead of them. Typically, the warm air is more moist than the colder air. They tend to move along in the prevailing mid and upper level winds which over the mid latitudes (between the tropics and the polar regions) blow generally west to east. Recall that a front is where two different air masses meet, and a cold front is where cold air is replacing warm air, and a warm front is where warm air replaces cooler air. Stationary simply means a front is not moving, while an occlusion is where a cold front catches up to the warm front from behind. That should give you help on those questions. Let me know if you're unsure about something. Instead of just giving you the answers, let me try to describe mid latitude cyclones. In the northern hemisphere, a cyclone is an area of low pressure that is rotating counter-clockwise. Typically, warm air lies to its south while cooler air resides to its north. As they rotate, the cooler air is pulled southward behind them while warmer air moves northward ahead of them. Typically, the warm air is more moist than the colder air. They tend to move along in the prevailing mid and upper level winds which over the mid latitudes (between the tropics and the polar regions) blow generally west to east.

Recall that a front is where two different air masses meet, and a cold front is where cold air is replacing warm air, and a warm front is where warm air replaces cooler air. Stationary simply means a front is not moving, while an occlusion is where a cold front catches up to the warm front from behind.

That should give you help on those questions. Let me know if you’re unsure about something.

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