Chapter 12: Precipitation, Air Masses, and Fronts

Is it Still Raining?

Warm fronts are generally associated with light or moderate rainfall and involve the sequencing of status clouds. Days of persistent, but gentle precipitation and humid temperature are the doing of warm fronts. Rain continues to fall throughout the day as layered stratus clouds fill the sky, and areas affected go beyond the actual surface passage of the front. The tendency of warm fronts to extend themselves is the reason rainy weather in Edmonton might spell showers, or gloomy weather for areas like Sherwood Park and Red Deer. 

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