Since I am an uneducated weather amateur, can someone please explain what exactly is an occluded front? I get the cold front and the warm front concepts, but the occluded eludes me. Oooh! I'm a poet & don't know it!

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Anonymous wrote:An occluded front is simply when the cold front catches up with the warm front around a low pressure system. The there is a boundary between cool and cold instead of warm and cold. It happens with Pacific storms alot.
Fred Gossage wrote:It is also very important to note that in most cases, when a storm system has an occluded front associated with it, it has reached maturity...and soon after....may begin to weaken...(most of the time)....
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