Question

A cold front often brings intense weather changes such as thunderstorms while a warm front often brings light rain or drizzle. Why is this the case?

Answer 1

The front term is associated with an area where two air masses met and as it is usually the condition with heavy rain, fierce wind, snow and other violent weather like a war situation. The front could be warm, cold, occluded or stationary depends on the type of weather.

The cold front is associated with lots of thunderstorms and other intense weather while the warm front changes with drizzly rain and warmer weather due to the fact that in a cold front, replacement of warm air by the cold air is faster while in a warm front, the replacement of cold air by warm air is gradual