On 2006-04-20, Casey Wilson wrote:
Hmmm, do a google for "occluded front" and see if that answers your
question.

Except it's not an occluded front. An occluded front has a line with
both the 'sharks teeth' and the warm front semicircles on it, the sharks
teeth and semicircles filled in (and if in colour, drawn in magenta) and
on the leading edge of the occluded front. What is depicted is
definitely not the symbology for an occluded front. (There is an
occluded front behind it - straggling the centre of the 998 millibar low
pressure system that is following the cold front with the white sharks
teeth).

Besides, the weather systems are moving eastbound, and for an occlusion
to occur, a cold front must catch up with a warm front. Cold fronts
generally travel faster than warm fronts. This particular front is ahead
of another cold front and appears to cross a stationary front at one
point.

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