Precipitation icing
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Precipitation icing happens when a liquid water drops fall on a surface and then freeze. Precipitation icing happens during rain or snowfall, when the precipitation freezes as it contacts the surface. If temperature is between 0 and 3 degrees Celsius, then the falling snowflakes contain liquid water, which enables them to bond weakly with each other. After this, the bond strengthens when temperature drops below zero degrees Celsius. Rain causes precipitation icing when the temperature is below zero. This happens for example with freezing rain.
Icing in nature can happen mainly in two different ways: by in-cloud icing or precipitation icing. In-cloud icing happens when water freezes from a cloud or fog.
References
- ↑ Jin, J. Y. (2021) Study of Atmospheric Ice Accretion on Wind Turbine Blades. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Online. https://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/22115
- ↑ THE RATE AT WHICH RAIN FREEZES IN A FREEZING RAIN EVENT, The weather prediction, webpage, available (accessed 29.2.2021): http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/210/