On the Kalamazoo River this weekend, Michigan residents will kayak down the sparkling waters and cast their lines for smallmouth bass. The relaxing summer day will bear little resemblance to July 25, 2010, when a ruptured pipeline spewed a million gallons of crude oil into a nearby creek. Five years and billions of cleanup dollars after the worst inland oil spill in U.S. history, the river is largely revitalized. Resuscitated wetlands hug the river, while three new boat launches and man-made rapids draw paddlers, fishers and weekenders.
a result, the angle of the frontal boundary is not as severe as a cold front and the warm air climbs slowly over the cooler air. This produces layered clouds like stratus and nimbostratus clouds. Far in advance of the front cirrostratus and cirrus clouds form. Warm fronts form clouds that cover a large area and create rain or snow events that
Stationary front- a front that does not move or barely moves. Stationary fronts behave like warm fronts, but are more quiescent. Many times the winds on both sides of a stationary front are parallel to the front. Typically stationary fronts form when polar air masses are modified significantly so as to lose their character (e.g., cold fronts which stall). Figure 4 - Development of an Occluded Front: Occluded Fronts: Because cold fronts move faster than warm fronts, they can catch up to and overtake their related warm front. When they do, an occluded front is formed.