A unique feature of a comparative essay is that you have several different organizational strategies to choose from. 1  Use a traditional outline form if you would like to, but even a simple list of bulleted points in the order that you plan to present them would help.
A warm front is the transition zone in the atmosphere where an advancing warm subtropical, moist air mass replaces a retreating cold, dry polar air mass. On a weather map, a warm front is drawn as a solid red line with half-circles. The position of the half-circles shows the direction of frontal movement.
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.