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Along the boundary between continental polar and maritime tropical air masses, widespread precipitation and storminess is often found.

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Question 52

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Wintertime mP air masses are less common along the Atlantic coast of North America than along the Pacific coast mainly because the

A) ​water is colder along the Pacific coast.
B) ​prevailing winds aloft are westerly.
C) ​source region for mP air on the Atlantic coast is western Europe.
D) ​water is warmer along the Atlantic coast.
E) ​land is colder along the Atlantic coast.

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​Warm, humid, and a chance of thunderstorms is a typical weather pattern produced by an air mass designated as ____________________.

What type of weather front would likely 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."

Alternating lines of blue and red on a surface weather chart indicate a(n)

The air mass with the highest actual water vapor content is

What type of air mass would be responsible for persistent cold, damp weather with drizzle along the east coast of North America?

​Lake-effect snows are snowstorms that form on the ____ side of a large lake.

What type of weather front would likely be responsible for the following weather forecast? "Light rain and cold today with temperatures just above freezing. Southeasterly winds shifting to westerly tonight. Turning colder with rain becoming mixed with snow, then changing to snow."

With slow-moving cold fronts, clouds and precipitation usually cover a broad area behind the front. When the ascending warm air is stable, ___________ clouds become the predominant cloud type.​

A stationary front does not move because

At a warm front, the warm air

The 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." suggests that a(n) ____________________ front is going to pass the area.​

Regions where air masses originate are known as ____________________.​

The greatest contrast in both temperature and moisture will occur along the boundary separating which air masses?

Squall lines most often form ahead of a

In an exceptionally cold winter during which the Great Lakes were entirely covered by ice, lake effect snows would be expected in extremely high frequency and intensity.

Which air masses are formed in regions where long, clear nights allow for strong radiational cooling of the surface?

During the winter as you travel toward a warm front, the most likely sequence of weather you would experience is

What type of weather would you expect to see form when a cP air mass moves across warm water? Would conditions be any different when mP air moves across a cold land surface?​