Movement of fronts and weather patterns?

Question

A front moving across the United States can affect wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and can lead to the formation of storms. I'm also aware that the movement of low pressure and high pressure cells can affect the weather. But what affects the direction and speed in which the fronts/pressure cells move? If you have a low pressure cell moving toward you, and spinning outward from it (like blades on a pinwheel) are a cold front line, a warm front line, and a mixed line, how can you tell where that cell will move and whether those fronts will continue moving?

Answer 1

Look at surface map and you will notice lines of equal pressure called isobars.   Lows and your storm systems will generally follow those isobars.    Kind of like a highway.  But it doesn't end there,   because above the surface,  you have stronger winds and it is these winds above the boundary (2,000 ft agl ) which actually steer the systems along.    

Where you are in relation to those isobars will dictate your wind direction and how close those isobars are together,  will affect the wind speed.   The closer together,  the higher the winds.

Answer 2

Direction and speed of a cell is determined by the direction and speed of the jet stream. To find out where it is moving, look at an upper air chart for 500 mb and 300 mb. Cold fronts are located at the trough (dip) of the jet stream, but the warm front is located at the ridge (rise) of the jet stream.