Freezing rain

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Freezing rain is liquid water at zero degrees Celsius or lower. In nature, a specific set of conditions can cause freezing rain, which results in fast ice accretion. Freezing rain creates glaze ice. Water can remain liquid even at subzero temperature when it travels through cold air but does not have enough time to freeze into ice pellets. Freezing rain happens only in temperatures, where the droplets can unfreeze during their fall. It freezes upon contact with a process known as nucleation.

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  2. 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/