The consequences of what natural phenomenon are shown in the picture?

Freezing rain is the name given to rain maintained at temperatures below freezing by the ambient air mass that causes freezing on contact with surfaces. Unlike a mixture of rain and snow or ice pellets, freezing rain is made entirely of liquid droplets. The raindrops become supercooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air hundreds of meters above the ground, and then freeze upon impact with any surface they encounter, including the ground, trees, electrical wires, aircraft, and automobiles. The resulting ice, called glaze ice, can accumulate to a thickness of several centimeters and cover all exposed surfaces.

A storm that produces a significant thickness of glaze ice from freezing rain is often referred to as an ice storm. Although these storms are not particularly violent, freezing rain is notorious for causing travel problems on roadways, breaking tree limbs, and downing power lines from the weight of accumulating ice. Downed power lines cause power outages in affected areas while accumulated ice can also pose significant overhead hazards. It is also known for being extremely dangerous to aircraft since the ice can effectively 'remould' the shape of the airfoil and flight control surfaces.

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Joris van Pelt

Rain, freezing rain, sleet, ice, snow, OH NO!!! We’ve done this already this winter. My blood is way too thin for this, not thick at all. - When I go out, I look like the Michelin Man Or very young children with Southern mothers Can barely move for all the clothing layers - I want to crawl in my bed and stay, wrapped in blankets, sheets, and quilts With nary a single inch of me showing out. - But off to work in the snow I must go. The turnpike never really closes Silly people trying to get somewhere that is most likely closed

Susan Crispi Mansfield

This picture looks like our neighborhood when the ice storm hit in February 2021 (Oregon). These kinds of events bring neighbors together in gestures of helping.

Eileen Murphy

Dario Gritti, I debated between the 2.

Ilias Tsiabardas

Ice Storm in 1998 in Ontario and Quebec Canada was the worst that I can Remembered

rkcorrigan

Oddly enough that picture looks the same to me as what we have called rime ice. It looks to me the end results are very similar, be it time ice or freezing rain.

Maurice Carlier

The Picture shows the result of freezing rain. Rime ice is more akin to hoarfrost and is not smooth.

Johnny Rock

For several years now here in the Great Pacific Northwest, we have had periods lasting for a week or longer when a winter storm had produced a frozen tundra effect here, after freezing rain comes and freezes everything and everything is shut down, no travel, no buses, no work for anybody, and that is coupled with thawing and re-freezing, and then a blanket of snow goes in-between making it even worse, and the entire metropolis is shut down. No one ventures out. Last winter we were shut down for almost a week before it became safe to drive or walk around. To worsen this after the freezing rain melts the branches from trees break off from too much weight only adding more precarious hazards to the roads. We aren't prepared for this type of weather like they are in the mid-west and east region of our country.

Player

It's destructive often but it dazzles the eyes when you see the effects in the sunlight.

coralnavon

We were in Montreal for a year in 1997/8 and went through the harsh freezing rain storm.

Carl Belken

Karin Johansson, They banned them in my state from March until October. Once they did that tire dealers stopped stocking them. You could supposedly order them but the dealer would usually say he couldn't do that then try to sell you what he had in stock. I loved those studded tires in the very few years I used them.

Karin Johansson

Harrison Linda, with Winter tires with studs it is no problem. But many here use those without studs. A lot drive like it is Summer too.

earlepg

fdeisner, I wanted to use the double chance. The first question on the bonus game prevented that so I took the chance on freezing rain.

Carl Belken

Harrison Linda, I drove to work in freezing rain many times in the dark. I'd much rather drive in a blizzard.

fdeisner

I thought the answer was freezing rain but I use a double chance not knowing which answer brian I would say which is correct. With all the negative comments below there are only thirteen dislikes including mine out of over 17,000 people that have answered this question. More people should hit the dislike button with questions poor choices like these.