Yep. In the US for example the fronts during summer would sweep out of Canada and push across the US making lines of thunderstorms from Chicago to Dallas. The air mass would change winds and temperatures across a big chunk of the country. Now these large frontal systems rarely happen. Slower—moving smaller systems just grind away at a more localized area while the heat just sits there, nothing comes along to push it out of the way. More straight-line wind damage, more localized hail damage, more localized flooding.