• Freezing drizzle is drizzle that freezes on contact with the ground or an object at or near the surface. Its METAR code is FZDZ. Although freezing drizzle...
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    code for drizzle is DZ and for freezing drizzle is FZDZ. While most drizzle has only a minor immediate impact upon humans, freezing drizzle can lead to...
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  • and snow precipitations. Freezing rain often causes major power outages by forming glaze ice. When the freezing rain or drizzle is light and not prolonged...
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    into: Liquid precipitation: Drizzle (DZ) Rain (RA) Cloudburst (CB) Freezing/Mixed precipitation: Freezing drizzle (FZDZ) Freezing rain (FZRA) Rain and snow...
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    accompanied by drizzle. Sunlight often cannot sufficiently penetrate the fog layer, keeping temperatures below freezing. Episodes of freezing drizzle occasionally...
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    else a freezing rain or drizzle advisory is issued; in some areas, the criterion is 1⁄2 inch (13 mm) instead. Prior to October 2017, a freezing rain advisory...
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  • or absorbed by the particles.[citation needed] With fog, occasional freezing drizzle and snow can occur. This usually occurs when temperatures are below...
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    Strato-, meaning "layer" or "sheet". Stratus clouds may produce a light drizzle or a small amount of snow. These clouds are essentially above-ground fog...
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    Fog (redirect from Freezing fog)
    from above by descending air. Drizzle becomes freezing drizzle when the temperature at the surface drops below the freezing point. The thickness of a fog...
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  • A freezing rain advisory was an advisory issued by the National Weather Service in the United States when freezing rain or freezing drizzle was expected...
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  • snow is now issued instead. Freezing rain advisory  WSW  (alt.: freezing drizzle advisory) – Freezing rain or freezing drizzle producing ice accretion of...
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    northern part of Escambia County. January 21, 2022: Light freezing rain and freezing drizzle occurred during the morning of January 21, 2022, across the...
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  • caused by fog that lasts at least eighteen hours. Freezing Drizzle Advisory – Issued when freezing drizzle is expected to last for at least eight hours. Frost...
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    patches or shreds of cumulus or stratus. frazil ice freezing drizzle A type of precipitation in which drizzle consisting of supercooled liquid water droplets...
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    hoarfrost, freezing fog, freezing drizzle, rime, or wet snow. To report freezing rain, the system combines the sensor output from the freezing rain sensor...
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    to indicate the formation of ice, frost or the presence of freezing rain or freezing drizzle. It is normally attached to a Stevenson screen, about 1 m...
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    (Italian: [strattʃaˈtɛlla]) is a variety of gelato with fine strands of drizzled chocolate stirred through it. It was originally created in Bergamo, northern...
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  • warning, or in the case of light freezing rain, a winter weather advisory, a freezing rain advisory, or a freezing drizzle advisory. In lieu of issuing such...
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    include rain and drizzle. Rain or drizzle that freezes on contact within a subfreezing air mass is called "freezing rain" or "freezing drizzle". Frozen forms...
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  • Winter Weather Advisory for Freezing Rain (replaced the Freezing Rain Advisory) – issued for freezing rain or freezing drizzle events forecast to produce...
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    airport closure by NOTAM, as a result of the winter storm producing freezing drizzle on the airfield. This came before their game against the Denver Broncos...
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    the aircraft was taken off its chocks, it was de-iced due to a light freezing drizzle noted by the surface weather report: 15:45 – Local, estimated 500 feet...
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    20 kilometres per hour (12 mph). Freezing rain is common in Newfoundland where it is known as "silver thaw". Freezing drizzle or freezing rain occurs on average...
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    airport closure by NOTAM, as a result of Winter Storm Blair producing freezing drizzle on the airfield. This delayed their flight to compete against the Broncos...
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    varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental and subarctic...
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    and rainbows can be possibly created. "Scotch mist" is a light steady drizzle that appears like mist. Mist usually occurs near the shores and is often...
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    smooth, transparent and homogeneous ice coating occurring when freezing rain or drizzle hits a surface. It is similar in appearance to clear ice, which...
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    redirect targets Rain – Form of precipitation Freezing rain – Rain maintained at temperatures below freezing Drizzle – Light liquid precipitation Snow – Precipitation...
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    inland from Nut Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, with sleet, fog, freezing drizzle, and visibility estimated at less than 1⁄8-mile (200 m), the plane...
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    uncommon in valleys and plains; it can be especially persistent, with freezing drizzle episodes and subzero temperatures during winter, mainly along the Ebro...
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