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This is because there is a temperature inversion at the surface, which can occur for several reasons. This means that the air above the surface is actually warmer, and in this case above freezing, than the air right on the ground. This causes snow from higher in the atmosphere to melt into raindrops, but the rain doesn't have enough time to refreeze into ice pellets (Sleet) before reaching the ground, so you get rain. This is called freezing rain though, since those sub-freezing temperatures on the ground cause the rain to freeze on contact. This creates a sheet of ice, or glaze, covering everything.

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