Freezing rain
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freezing-rain-217-4037738
title:
Freezing rain
text:
Freezing rain is rain maintained at temperatures below freezing by the ambient air mass that causes freezing on contact with surfaces. Unlike a mixture of rain and snow or ice pellets, freezing rain is made entirely of liquid droplets. The raindrops become supercooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air hundreds of meters above the ground, and then freeze upon impact with any surface they encounter, including the ground, trees, electrical wires, aircraft, and automobiles. The resul
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Rain maintained at temperatures below freezing
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezing_rain
date created:
2003-05-04T00:27:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T02:55:15Z
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