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METEOROLOGY GEL-1370 Chapter Eight Air Masses, Fronts, and Middle-Latitude Cyclones Goal for this Chapter We are going to learn answers to the following questions: What are the different types of air masses? How fronts are formed? How can warm fronts cause freezing rain sleet during winter What are Lake-effect snow? How does it affect certain regions in Michigan? What are characteristics of warm front, cold front and occluded front? What is a polar front theory? Air Masses Air mass: A large body of air that has similar horizontal temperature moisture characteristics Weather forecastin