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This might be a New Year’s ball drop we’d all like to soon forget. The estimated 1 million revelers set to ring in 2025 in the Big Apple are in for a very soggy time in Times Square, with rain ...
Rain in the forecast – but no umbrellas allowed. Staggered street closures began at 4 a.m. Tuesday and will eventually close off a large section of the city, from 39th Street up to 57th Street ...
NBC New York Updated December 16, 2024 at 9:37 AM For the counties under the advisory, people will likely see snow initially before transitioning to freezing rain overnight.
Because freezing rain does not hit the ground as an ice pellet (called "sleet") but still as a rain droplet, it conforms to the shape of the ground, or object such as a tree branch or car. This makes one thick layer of ice, often called "glaze". Freezing rain and glaze ice on a large scale is called an ice storm. Effects on plants can be severe ...
Freezing drizzle is extremely dangerous to aircraft in icing conditions, as the supercooled water droplets will freeze onto the airframe, degrading aircraft performance considerably. The loss and accident of American Eagle Flight 4184 on October 31, 1994, has been attributed to ice buildup due to freezing drizzle aloft.
Freezing rain sometimes marks the southern edge of wintry precipitation in weather systems. That southern edge can dip into areas not used to dealing with wintry weather, such as the South.
Freezing temperatures will likely last in New York City through Saturday. Getty Images Temperatures Tuesday held steady in the teens — and more of that bitter cold can be expected Thursday.
Since late September, New York City has received only 0.01 of an inch of rain while only a few drops have fallen on Philadelphia. In both examples, evaporation and the lack of rain have dried the ...