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  2. Freezing rain - Wikipedia

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    Freezing rain develops when falling snow encounters a layer of warm air aloft, typically around the 800 mbar (800 hPa; 80 kPa) level, causing the snow to melt and become rain. As the rain continues to fall, it passes through a layer of subfreezing air just above the surface and cools to a temperature below freezing (0 °C or 32 °F or 273 K).

  3. Snow - Wikipedia

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    Snow accumulates from a series of snow events, punctuated by freezing and thawing, over areas that are cold enough to retain snow seasonally or perennially. Major snow-prone areas include the Arctic and Antarctic , the Northern Hemisphere, and alpine regions.

  4. Rain and snow mixed - Wikipedia

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    Rain and snow mixed (American English) or sleet (Commonwealth English) is precipitation composed of a mixture of rain and partially melted snow.Unlike ice pellets, which are hard, and freezing rain, which is fluid until striking an object where it fully freezes, this precipitation is soft and translucent, but it contains some traces of ice crystals from partially fused snowflakes, also called ...

  5. Winter Storm Brings Uncertain Snow, Ice Threat To Gulf ... - AOL

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    We often see multiple rounds of moisture overspread the cold air, which means multiple batches of snow, ice or a mixture of the two. This frozen tango may last just a day or it can go on for a ...

  6. Dangerous ice, slippery snow to impact travel in Northeast on ...

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    A storm is bringing just enough wintry precipitation to cause travel trouble ahead of Christmas Day across the Northeast, including Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D ...

  7. Weird winter weather: Cold and snow to the East, but rain and ...

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    First day of winter is here: Snow and cold in forecast as winter begins The West: Rain and warm temperatures. Rain along the West Coast over Saturday and Sunday will douse northern California, the ...

  8. Precipitation types - Wikipedia

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    Rain or drizzle which freezes on contact with a surface within a subfreezing air mass gains the preceding adjective "freezing", becoming the known freezing rain or freezing drizzle. Slush is a mixture of both liquid and solid precipitation. Frozen forms of precipitation include snow, ice crystals, ice pellets (sleet), hail, and graupel. Their ...

  9. Classifications of snow - Wikipedia

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    Snow accumulation on ground and in tree branches in Germany Snow blowing across a highway in Canada Spring snow on a mountain in France. Classifications of snow describe and categorize the attributes of snow-generating weather events, including the individual crystals both in the air and on the ground, and the deposited snow pack as it changes over time.