Warm Front Bands are connected with multi-layered cloudiness, with clearances in the warm sector. Precipitation can be found well ahead of the surface front until just after front passage.
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Description
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| Precipitation
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- Rainbands typically 50 kilometres wide and a few hundred kilometres, usually orientated at a small angle to the surface front
- Slight, moderate or heavy precipitation ahead of the surface front
- In winter ahead of surface front snow, freezing rain (drizzle) is possible.
- After the front passage small areas with drizzle (light snow in winter)
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| Temperature
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- Rises after the passage of the front
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| Wind (incl. gusts)
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- Veering of the wind at the front passage
- Sometimes in warm sector increasing and more gusty winds
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| Other relevant information
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- Precipitation areas move faster than surface front (embedded in WCB).
- Sometimes moderate to severe icing ahead of surface front
- In wintertime in the warm sector great risk of fog
- In warm sector low level turbulence possible
- In summer thunder possible, most likely at the warm side of the front
- Apart from fog in winter and spring, the warm sector a dry area with clearings
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