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A weather front is a boundary separating two masses of air of different densities, and is the principal cause of meteorological phenomena. In surface weather analyses, fronts are depicted using various colored lines and symbols, depending on the type of front. The air masses separated by a front usually differ in temperature and humidity. Cold fronts may feature narrow bands of thunderstorms and severe weather, and may on occasion be preceded by squall lines or dry lines. Warm fronts are usually preceded by stratiform precipitation and fog. The weather usually clears quickly after a front's passage. Some fronts produce no precipitation and little cloudiness, although there is invariably a wind shift.

Cold fronts and occluded fronts generally move from west to east, while warm fronts move poleward. Because of the greater density of air in their wake, cold fronts and cold occlusions move faster than warm fronts and warm occlusions. Mountains and warm bodies of water can slow the movement of fronts. When a front becomes stationary, and the density contrast across the frontal boundary vanishes, the front can degenerate into a line which separates regions of differing wind velocity, known as a shearline. This is most common over the open ocean.

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2015: Cyclone Pam began affecting the islands of Vanuatu, eventually killing 15 people.

1933: A tornado outbreak struck parts of Tennessee, killing dozens of people, including 15 in Nashville.

2010: Cyclone Tomas made its closest approach to Vanua Levu, causing major damage throughout Fiji.

1942: An extensive tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern United States, killing 152 people.

2012: Cyclone Lua made landfall near Pardoo Station, Western Australia. Though the storm packed 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometres per hour (109 mph), only minor damage was reported due to the sparse population of the area.

1925: The Tri-State Tornado, the longest-tracked tornado in history, killed almost 700 people in the United States Midwest.

2012: A weather radar system named OU-PRIME, used for teaching and research at the University of Oklahoma, was struck by lightning and disabled.

John Dalton FRS (/ˈdɔːltən/; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry. Building on earlier ideas about the indivisibility of matter and his own precise measurements of combining ratios, Dalton proposed that each chemical element consists of identical atoms of characteristic weight, and that compounds are formed when atoms of different elements combine in fixed whole-number proportions. His A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808) presented a coherent atomic model, supplied relative atomic weights and symbolic notation, and established the quantitative framework that shaped nineteenth-century chemistry and remains the basis of modern chemical thought.

Dalton was also a pioneering meteorologist and physicist, keeping daily weather observations for over fifty years, formulating the first empirical law of partial pressures (later known as Dalton’s Law), and studying the behavior of gases through his work on vapor pressure and gas solubility. His investigations into his own color blindness led to the first scientific description of the condition—still called Daltonism in several languages—and helped establish experimental methods for linking perception with physiology. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822 and awarded its Royal Medal in 1826, Dalton became the first British scientist to develop a quantitative atomic theory and one of the key figures in the transition of chemistry from a qualitative to a mathematical science.

In honour of Dalton's work, a unit of atomic mass, the dalton, symbol Da, is officially accepted for use with the SI. (Full article...)

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