What type of front would occur if two frontss meet coming from different directions?

Question

What type of front would occur if two frontss meet coming from different directions?

Answer 1

It is impossible for that to happen.  You can have a front overtake a front going in the same direction, which will be called an "occluded front."  Just like in the summer time when hurricanes are moving towards the coast. If a front or another low pressure system is moving towards it, it will cause the hurricane to be steered away. That is what happened with bertha.  

Since in the nothern hempisphere progresses things eastward, the front moving eastward has the advantage, but the one coming from the east will be steered away.  You have several fronts that come from the opposite dirrection. They are called "back door cold or wam fronts."  But it will be steered back towards the east if another front comes towards it.

Answer 2

A front just separates two different air masses, such as warm and cold.  The front is labelled a warm front if the warm air is advancing on the cold air, and it is labeled a cold front if the cold air is advance on the warm air.  I don't think its physically possible to have a cold front moving south to meet a cold front, because that would imply there are 3 distinct air masses in close proximity to one another.  It would be very difficult, perhaps impossible, for such a situation to arise.  

In the mesoscale, I suppose you could have a sea breeze front moving west meeting an eastward moving cold front.  In this case, the strong of the two will win out, most likely the cold front.  The sea breeze front would like be pushed back east or simply die out altogether.  

A cold front can catch up to a warm front, and this forms an occluded front.

Answer 3

They would either meet and stop, resulting in a stationary front, or one front would overpower the other, maintaining it's identity.