The boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.
〔气象〕冷锋
Example sentencesExamples
The subtropical highs move from west to east across southern Australia in winter, and further south in summer, usually separated by low pressure troughs or cold fronts.
A cold front is the boundary between cool and warm air when the cool air is replacing the warm air.
Although cold fronts associated with southern low pressure systems penetrate the ridge from time to time during summer, they generally fail to produce much useful rain.
The weather man tells me all about high pressure and low pressure, about wind direction, cold fronts, warm fronts and all that.
Rain is the precipitation of condensed water vapor caused when a warm front meets a cold front in the upper atmosphere.
Definition of cold front in US English:
cold front
nounˈkōl(d) ˌfrənt
Meteorology
The boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.
〔气象〕冷锋
Example sentencesExamples
Although cold fronts associated with southern low pressure systems penetrate the ridge from time to time during summer, they generally fail to produce much useful rain.
A cold front is the boundary between cool and warm air when the cool air is replacing the warm air.
Rain is the precipitation of condensed water vapor caused when a warm front meets a cold front in the upper atmosphere.
The weather man tells me all about high pressure and low pressure, about wind direction, cold fronts, warm fronts and all that.
The subtropical highs move from west to east across southern Australia in winter, and further south in summer, usually separated by low pressure troughs or cold fronts.