Explain how, using no meteorological instruments other than your eyes, you could identify the passage of an occluded front.?

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ANSWER: When a cold front catches up to and overtakes a warm front, the frontal boundary created between the two air masses is called anoccluded front, or, simply, an occlusion. Locating and defining occluded fronts at the surface is often difficult since the associated weather patterns are similar to those observed in approaching warm fronts.

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