Since neither the warm air nor the cold air are advancing, the stationary front weather map symbols combine both the cold front and the warm front symbols. The stationary front is shown on a map with alternating triangles pointing away from the cold air and half circles pointing away from the warm air.
Color maps alternate the cold front blue and warm front red.
Frontal positions on weather maps show where the boundary touches the surface of the Earth. The boundary can be thousands of feet above the ground a couple of hundred miles away from the surface front. If there's enough humidity in the air, clouds and precipitation will form as warm air overruns cool air along a stationary front. Sometimes, stationary fronts can stay stationary or nearly so for days. When this happens, the sky can stay gray with rain or snow.