weather front

boundary separating two masses of air of different densities
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weather front
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Summary

weather front ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,740 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: interface[2]
  • Commons category: Atmospheric fronts[3]
  • Has part(s): cold front[4], warm front[5], occluded front[6], dry line[7], stationary front[8]
  • Has cause: frontogenesis[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Weather fronts[10]
  • Commons gallery: Weather front[11]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[12], Great Soviet Encyclopedia[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]

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Influence

Things named for weather front include cherry blossom front[15], a 生物季節観測[16], founded in 1951[17].

Why It Matters

weather front has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Entities named for it include cherry blossom front[15], a 生物季節観測[16], founded in 1951[17].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_weather-front_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{weather front}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/weather-front}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-17}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 61
    Environment ontology id → 01001681
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'bg', 'bh', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'cy', 'de', 'e
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Environment ontology id: 01001681, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143356278|weather front (#143356278)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Environment "
  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → interface
    Harper's tag → fronts-meteorology
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: fronts-meteorology, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289929105|fronts meteorology (#289929105)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  3. 12w ago · Carlwm · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → interface
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: interface"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts → —
    Has part(s) → cold front, warm front, occluded front +2
    Subclass of → interface
    Local thumb → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 2939, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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