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 fronts prolong bad weather. A cold front is the boundary between cool and warm air when the cool air is replacing the warm air. A warm front is the boundary when the warm air is winning the battle. When the pushing is a standoff, the boundary is known as a stationary front. Stationary fronts often bring several days of cloudy, wet weather that can last a week or more. Since neither the warm air nor the cold air are advancing, the stationary front weather map symbols combine both the cold front and the warm front symbols. Maps show stationary fronts with alternating triangles pointing away from the cold air and half circles pointing away from the warm air. Color maps alternate the cold front blue and warm front red. A weather map's frontal position shows where the boundary touches the Earth.