Freezing Rain

26 December 2009By Zhu 18 Comments

We got a bad winter surprise today when we woke up to heavy freezing rain this morning. Yuck.

Freezing rain is pretty unique to very cold countries. When surface temperatures are below freezing, raindrops freeze upon impact with any object they encounter. The resulting ice accumulates to a thickness of several centimeters and it coats just about anything.

It results in pretty dangerous weather conditions. Power lines and trees bend under the weight of the ice and can break. Streets are roads are extremely icy and slippery. And of course, you have the scrap the ice off cars left outside, like we did for ours.

Ice is quite beautiful: trees are glowing and funny icicles can be spotted everywhere. Still, I hope it melts pretty fast. I feel trapped at home!

Icicles	Frozen Tree Branches
Frozen Stop Sign	Frozen, Frozen, Frozen!
Even Fir Trees!	Caught In Ice
Car Antenna	Scraping The Ice
Flowers	Frozen Drops Of Water

18 Comments »

barbara said:

Salut Zhu,

Bonne année !! Meilleurs voeux venus du vieux pays.

Ice is an unique form to photograph; never the same and always here and then gone. Lovely photos; not so lovely to defrost the car windshield !!

I’m getting back on track. D, my hubby was on vacation & instead of overdoing the chocolates or champagne overdone internet. So… I declared it a break for me. Now, I’m catching up- for my greatest pleasure.

Cold in Paris too this morning; & piddly -5 degrees or lower, in Paris & burbs- nothing for you strong Canuks ! And the cold is here all week.

Bises

# 5 January 2010 at 6:52 am

Linguist-in-Waiting said:

Oh, freezing rain. I loved them, when I first saw them. I thought I was in Narnia. But then I realized what that meant when it comes to driving, and oh, I wished I had a heat blower.
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# 29 December 2009 at 2:24 pm