Article: SLICK STREETS WAYLAY DRIVERS

Article: An Automated Synoptic Typing Procedure to Predict Freezing Rain: An Application to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Weather and Forecasting;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Freezing rain is a major weather hazard that can...were applied together to predict freezing rain events. The synoptic typing was...most likely to be associated with freezing rain events for the city of Ottawa, Ontario...

Article: Local and synoptic environments associated with freezing rain in the contiguous United States
Weather and Forecasting;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......synoptic conditions associated with freezing-rain events in the continental United States...thermodynamic stratification observed during freezing rain would be similar regardless of geographical...aspects of the thermodynamic profile of freezing-rain environments. This variability ...

Article: Canada's eastern provinces hit by snow, freezing rain
Xinhua News Agency;  March 2, 2009 ;     231 words ...Canada's eastern provinces hit by snow, freezing rain OTTAWA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Freezing rain and snow shut down schools and cut power...of Nova Scotia was pounded by bursts of freezing rain throughout Monday, with Environment Canada...

Article: Finding the big drops: what we teach about freezing rain is true less than 10 percent of the time. During the other 90, there may be no safe haven above you.
IFR;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......second chance on making decisions in freezing rain. Some SLD Water Supercooled Large Droplets...clouds, SLD is rare except during a freezing rain or freezing drizzle event. Drizzle...200 to 500 microns in diameter with freezing rain consisting of drops 1,000 to 3,000...

Article: Sources of data on freezing rain and resulting damages
Journal of Applied Meteorology;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Freezing rain produces major damages each year in the United...data on the incidence and losses produced by freezing rain. The various kinds of data available about freezing rain and related damages have been identified and...

Article: Slick Slop ; Messy Mix Of Snow, Ice And Freezing Rain Makes Getting Around A Hazardous Headache. Deep Freeze Expected Later Tonight.
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  January 28, 2009 ;     546 words ......overnight 3-inch snowfall morphed into freezing rain early this morning. Another round of rain or freezing rain will hit us later today. And whatever...our windows, as the snow switched to freezing rain. The freezing rain compacted the snow...

Article: TUESDAY OUTLOOK: FREEZING RAIN, 'A MESS' TODAY IS CALM BEFORE STORM 2-4 INCHES OF SNOW PREDICTED.(METRO)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  December 10, 2007 ;     323 words ......next winter storm, as a mix of freezing rain, snow and sleet is expected...south and east, including Dane. Freezing rain is expected to push into southern...Wisconsin late tonight, with snow, freezing rain and sleet expected Tuesday...

Article: AREA ROAD CREWS PREPARED FOR SNOW, POSSIBLE FREEZING RAIN
Evansville Courier & Press;  December 4, 2002 ;     391 words ......day the snow turns to sleet or freezing rain. "(It's) going to hinge on how...a mix we see into sleet and freezing rain (this) afternoon," Hart said...also is much more likely to see freezing rain and sleet as the day goes on...

Article: A climatology of freezing rain in the Great Lakes region of North America
Monthly Weather Review;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT A 15-yr climatology of freezing rain surrounding the Great Lakes region...there is a general increase in the freezing-rain frequency from west to east; however...spatial and temporal variability. Most freezing-rain events are short lived and occur near...

Article: Freezing rain and ice storm database
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  October 1, 2003 ;     223 words ......long-term historical datasets of freezing rain and ice storms for the United...quality-controlled data-sets for freezing rain/ice storms. The datasets on...include: * Days per month with freezing rain for over 240 first-order stations...

Article: Freezing Rain An Under-Appreciated Hazard.
Air Safety Week;  January 18, 1999 ;     269 words ......extreme danger of flying in conditions of freezing rain. The problem is particularly acute...definition involves drizzle and rain, freezing rain has been largely ignored by researchers...this statement ten times - classical freezing rain can be a hazard. To emphasize the point...

Article: The mesoscale dynamics of freezing rain storms over eastern Canada
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  May 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ......processes that affected the development of freezing rain events. The observed features of the...may refreeze at the surface to form freezing rain. Such evolution of surface precipitation...in the form of snow, ice pellets,1 freezing rain,2 and rain can occur simultaneously...

Article: ROADS TREACHEROUS AFTER SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN MANY ACCIDENTS REPORTED ON I-81
Roanoke Times & World News;  February 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Two days' worth of snow, sleet and freezing rain caused treacherous road conditions...to primary roads as more sleet and freezing rain fell. She said crews would be working...night. "It's kind of flipping between freezing rain and sleet," said Robert Stonefield...

Article: WINTER ON WAY WITH THREAT OF FREEZING RAIN
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 26, 2007 ;     328 words ......its own grab bag of hazards, including freezing rain. In fact, the National Weather Service says freezing rain is the most significant winter threat to Georgia for the month of December. Freezing rain is rain that falls onto a surface, such...