Freezing rain is caused when you have a precipitating cloud deck with a mass of warm air below it and then a thin mass of freezing air near the ground.
When the precipitation falls from the cloud, it will generally be snow. As it encounters the warm air, it melts into the usual water droplets of rain. But right before it reaches the ground, it enters the layer of below-freezing air and quickly turns into super-cooled water droplets. On landing on any freezing object, it instantly turns into a layer of ice.
That can turn streets into skating rinks in no time!
It falls as a liquid, but when it hits the ground it freezes.
Freezing rain has no common synonym.
It is rain that has been super-cooled on its way down through the atmosphere so that it freezes on contact with any freezing surface, forming glaze ice.
Freezing rain is super-cooled rain that turns to ice when it hits a surface that is at a temperature below freezing. It is not sleet or hail.
Freezing rain is super-cooled rain that freezes on contact with any surface that is at a temperature below freezing.
I'm guessing you mean either sleet, hail or snow.
Snow, sleet, or hail
rain because if its above freezing then it wont be snow or freezing rain because they would freeze below freezing and not above freezing:)
Freezing rain occurs when the layer of freezing air is so thin that the raindrops do not have enough time to freeze before reaching the ground. ... Sleet is simply frozen raindrops and occurs when the layer of freezing air along the surface is thicker. This causes the raindrops to freeze before reaching the ground.
Freezing rain can come from Cumulonimbus and Nimbostratus clouds, but the clouds are not responsible for the freezing rain. If the precipitation falls from the clouds as snow it must pass through a warm layer of air to melt the snow flakes into rain drops. Then the raindrops must pass through a frigid layer of air that super-cools them. Finally, the rain instantly turns to ice if it lands on a surface that has a temperature below freezing. Then you know you have freezing rain. (see Related Link below for more detail on freezing rain.)
there would have to be a layer of above freezing air on top of the ground so the rain would start as snow and melt in the above freezing air and become supercooled and fall as freezing rain (rain that freezes on contact with anything).
Same as the clouds that form rain and snow - nimbostratus, for the most part. Freezing rain forms due to a shallow layer of cold air at the surface with above-freezing air above. This is unrelated to cloud types.
Freezing rain occurs when the temputer ins below freezing
When it gets above freezing when it rains then it gets below freezing it causes freezing rain.
Freezing rain Sleet
There has always been freezing rain.
Freezing rain is composed of super-cooled waterwhich freezes on contact with any freezing surface, forming glaze ice.Ordinary rain has a temperature above freezing and will not instantly turn to ice.
rain because if its above freezing then it wont be snow or freezing rain because they would freeze below freezing and not above freezing:)
Freezing rain occurs when the layer of freezing air is so thin that the raindrops do not have enough time to freeze before reaching the ground. ... Sleet is simply frozen raindrops and occurs when the layer of freezing air along the surface is thicker. This causes the raindrops to freeze before reaching the ground.
freezing rain
The phenomenon of rain freezing on contact with a cold object is called "freezing rain".
No, hail is freezing rain.
Freezing precipitation is called sleet or freezing rain.
Freezing rain can come from Cumulonimbus and Nimbostratus clouds, but the clouds are not responsible for the freezing rain. If the precipitation falls from the clouds as snow it must pass through a warm layer of air to melt the snow flakes into rain drops. Then the raindrops must pass through a frigid layer of air that super-cools them. Finally, the rain instantly turns to ice if it lands on a surface that has a temperature below freezing. Then you know you have freezing rain. (see Related Link below for more detail on freezing rain.)