Question

18. Initially, temperatures are warm with the local weather station reporting a reading of 78 F, with light winds out of the south. One hour later, a line of thunderstorms pushes through with heavy rain and strong winds. Shortly after, the sky begins clearing following with strong winds out of the northwest coinciding with a rapid decrease in temperatures, which is reported at 46F. What kind of frontal boundary did you just experience

Answer 1

Cold Fronts

Step-by-step explanation:

Fronts are geograpghical terms that describes various boundaries between air masses of different temperatures.

There are frour different type of fronts, they includes:

1. Cold fronts

2. Warm fronts

3. Stationary fronts

4. Occluded fronts

However, from the question, the answer is Cold Front due to the following characteristics associated with cold front.

Cold front is term that describes the movement of front in which cold air is replacing warm air at the surface.

Some of the characteristics of cold fronts include the following

i. Cold fronts always move faster than all other types of fronts.

ii. Cold fronts is characterized by most violent weather among all types of

fronts.

iii. Cold fronts normally move the farthest while maintaining their intensity, while also associating with thunderstorms.

iv. Cold fronts usually bring cooler weather, clearing skies, and a sharp change in wind direction.

All the above characteristics are presented in the question. Hence, the answer is COLD FRONT.