Freezing Rain supercooled droplets freezing on impact
Ice storms can be the most devastating of winter weather phenomena and are often the cause of automobile accidents, power outages and personal injury.
The supercooled droplets freeze once they contact the earth's surface. Freezing fog is different from ice fog.
Rime Ice It is a rough, milky, opaque ice formed by the instantaneous freezing of small supercooled droplets as they strike the aircraft.
Clear Ice: It is a glossy, clear or translucent ice formed by the relatively slow freezing of large supercooled droplets. The large droplets spread out over the airfoil of an airplane before complete freezing, forming a sheet of clear ice.
In most cases, snow pellets fall in shower form, often before or together with snow, and chiefly on occasions when the surface temperature is at or slightly below 0°C (32°F). It is formed as a result of accretion of supercooled droplets collected on ...
 See also: Surface, Precipitation, Temperature, Layer, Weather
  
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