Stationary Front

Since we aren't really going to go into detail about them in class, I thought it might be cool to see what stationary fronts are all about.  A stationary front is a front that has stopped any sort of movement, because two air masses have met and cancelled each other's movement out.  From there, the fronts can either just die out, or can break away from one another and continue to move.  Once the movement is continued, the front is no longer stationary, and will most likely become either a warm front or a cold front.  A stationary front is represented by a red half circle, and an upside-down blue triangle, one after the other.  Since a stationary front occurs when two fronts are canceling each other out, the weather systems or also in a way canceled out.  Temperatures in stationary fronts are moderate, and there is little wind.  If wind were to pick up from one of the air masses, the front would continue to move, and therefore no longer be stationary.

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/tstorm/stat_front.html