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Stationary front symbol: solid line of alternating blue spikes pointing to the warmer air mass and red domes pointing to the colder air mass. A stationary front (or quasi-stationary front) is a weather front or transition zone between two air masses when each air mass is advancing into the other at speeds less than 5 knots (about 6 miles per hour or about 9 kilometers per hour) at the ground ...
Stationary fronts either dissipate after several days or devolve into shear lines, but they can transform into a cold or warm front if the conditions aloft change. Stationary fronts are marked on weather maps with alternating red half-circles and blue spikes pointing opposite to each other, indicating no significant movement.
In the anticyclonic col, the curvature of the high pressure area isobars is greater than that of the cyclonic flow. The influence of the adjoining high-pressure areas dominates so the formation of a strong front here is unlikely. The weather is very calm and is mainly determined by the air mass properties.
A stationary front is a non-moving boundary between two different air masses. They tend to remain in the same area for long periods of time, sometimes undulating in waves. [ 29 ] Often a less-steep temperature gradient continues behind (on the cool side of) the sharp frontal zone with more widely spaced isotherms.
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Description: Weather fronts cold front; warm front; stationary front; occluded front; surface trough; squall line; dry line; tropical wave; trowal (Trough of warm air aloft by Canadian Avalanche Association and World Meteorological Organisation)