Warm fronts are red and cold fronts are blue, so what type of weather front is purple? Meteorologist Derek Witt explains in this “Weather Word of the Week.” In our last weather word, we took a deep ...

An occluded front is drawn in purple. It is a cold front that overtakes a warm front. They commonly occur close to a maturing low pressure system. A wide variety of weather can be found along an ...

Whenever there is an expected change in weather, you will often hear that a frontal passage is predicted to arrive soon. In general terms, there are four major types of frontal passages: cold front, ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — October is the time of year that cold fronts start to roll through South Texas regularly. Often, these fronts are weak and tend to be described as 'cool' fronts, BUT - did you ...

Having had the cheek to mention that we have an "occluded front" in the forecast today, i've been asked several times what this actually means! Of course it sounds an awful lot like techy-speak, but ...

We hear it all the time from meteorologists. “A cold front will move in and bring storms,” or “a warm front is heading our way with light rain.” But why do we expect certain weather conditions with ...

I understand what a warm front is and what a cold front is. I often see, however, a third kind of front called an occluded front on weather maps. What is an occluded front and how is it different from ...

When severe weather is threatening, there are numerous details our weather team analyzes to better understand the risk. First ...

On this week's Weather Wonders episode, Jack asked, "Why do we have different weather changes?". To answer this question, we have to look at high and low pressure systems, as well as, warm and cold ...

Northern hemisphere weather maps sometimes include the following weather fronts: Cold, Warm, Occluded, Cold/Warm, Developing, Uppercold/Warm, Quasi-stationary — yet here in Oz we see only cold fronts.