How to Use stationary front in a Sentence

stationary front

noun
  • The focus for these storm clusters will be a stationary front lying south of the metro area.
    — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • That stationary front should get bumped north again into Tuesday.
    — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
  • Some heavier rain may be near a stationary front, which is an area of converging winds that often promotes more rainfall.
    — Jackson Dill and Judson Jones, CNN, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Exact timing and location of rain depends on just how a quasi-stationary front drapes itself through the region.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • This stationary front separated the warm, Gulf air mass from a slightly cooler and drier air mass over land.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The stationary front causing all this trouble will dissipate Wednesday evening.
    — Adam Klotz, Fox News, 18 May 2021
  • An evening shower remains possible, especially south of town where the cold front has turned into a stationary front — stalling out.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Instigating the flooding was a stationary front draped across the metro region, which acted as train tracks for heavy thunderstorm cells to ride along.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • This stationary front will turn into a warm front and lift north all the way to the I-80 corridor by late afternoon and evening hours.
    — Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • With a stationary front lingering to the north, another round of showers and storms is likely late afternoon into evening.
    — Brian Jackson, Washington Post, 16 June 2019
  • Rain chances will be increasing again Monday and Tuesday, as a stationary front lingers in our vicinity.
    — Dallas News, 5 July 2020
  • That’s the air wafting north into thunderstorms and being converted into heavy downpours along a stationary front.
    — Annabelle Timsit and Zach Rosenthal, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • That's the air wafting north into thunderstorms and being converted into heavy downpours along a stationary front.
    — Zach Rosenthal, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Discussion As of Thursday afternoon, a stationary front draped across our region has lifted north.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 31 May 2018
  • Several quick-hitting systems will move along a stationary front draped across the region and bring an extended period of gloomy, chilly conditions.
    — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Cooler and wetter times are here, more or less, with a somewhat stationary front draped across the region, along with an upper-level low pressure system trying to hang out to our west for a spell.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • Unsettled pattern develops A stationary front will linger through the end of the week bringing a chance of rain each day from Thursday through the weekend.
    — Gregory Padgett, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Gentle but persistent and deep winds from the east-southeast were lifted over the stationary front, triggering the eruption of the storm complex on the northwestern side of the front.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • For the Gulf Coast region, flooding may wreak havoc on any outdoor holiday plans as a stationary front continues to pester an area that does not need more rain.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 2 Sep. 2022
  • It was characterized by an area of low pressure moving northeast along a stationary front across eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Fred, along with a nearly stationary front, should be causing some showers and perhaps a thunderstorm, but the circulation will be gone or nearly so, thus there isn’t any concern about winds.
    — courant.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • High pressure will remain in control for most of the state Saturday, but a stationary front will cause thickening clouds in eastern areas along with the chance for a few late-day showers.
    — courant.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The stationary front could trigger a few afternoon and early evening showers and perhaps a weak thunderstorm, but there is only about a 40% chance for precipitation.
    — Hartford Courant, 13 July 2022
  • Additionally, note the stationary front draped across Virginia, which focused the moist, low level winds into a convergent pattern over much of Virginia.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
  • This flooding event was caused by the interaction of Ida’s deep tropical moisture and a stationary front draped across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • An easterly flow off the Atlantic Ocean will interact with a stationary front to cause cloudy skies and cooler temperatures on Monday with highs in the low 60s.
    — courant.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Meteorologists said the stationary front will bring another round of severe storms from Louisiana to Georgia.
    — Melissa Griffin, ABC News, 13 June 2023
  • However, unlike Gamma, whose northward motion is currently being stunted by a stationary front, Invest-92 could have fewer obstacles to clear to be added to this year's very long list.
    — Gene Norman and Allison Chinchar, CNN, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Ahead of this storm on Tuesday, a stationary front will produce strong storms from Louisiana to Alabama and these storms could also produce isolated tornado and damaging winds.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2021
  • From April 2 to April 7, 2025, a slow-moving weather system and stationary front caused a widespread tornado outbreak as well as historic, life-threatening flash flooding across much of the South and Midwest.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 July 2026

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