Cold fronts tend to move the farthest while maintaining their intensity. In winter, cold fronts move into Oklahoma mainly from the Canadian prairies but sometimes from the Arctic Circle or the eastern Pacific. Cold fronts almost always are easier to locate on a weather map than are warm fronts, primarily because of the strength of the high pressure system to the north and west of the cold front compared to that north of a warm front. Cold fronts usually bring cooler weather, clearing skies, and a sharp change in wind direction. Warm fronts tend to move slowly.
Warm fronts are typically less violent than cold fronts.
If a warm front exists on a weather map, it will be northeast of the cold front and often, to the east of a surface low pressure area. Clouds and precipitation are quite prevalent to the north of the warm front. The lifting leads to saturation, cloud formation, and, ultimately, to some form of precipitation. In Oklahoma, warm fronts are rare in the winter and non-existent in the summer. Stationary fronts behave like warm fronts, but are more quiescent.