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What is an occluded front?

What is an occluded front? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (meteorology) An front that occurs when a cold front overtakes a warm front at the surface and a temperature contrast exists between the advancing and retreating cold air masses.
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As the cold front reaches the warm front it forms an occluded front.
In both types of occlusions, the occluded front has well defined vertical boundaries between the coldest air, the cool air, and the warm air.
A wide variety of weather can be found along an occluded front, with thunderstorms possible, but usually their passage is associated with a drying of the air mass.
An occluded front usually extends northward from the frontal wave and moves across northern British Columbia.
This frontal intersection is called an occluded front.
The weather forecast called for an occluded front to move into the Sierras Sunday afternoon, the day we were to fly back to China Lake.

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