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freezing rain.

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  • 01-11-2012 9:16am
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    snaps
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    How can it rain when air temp is well below freezing? This morning it was -2, and chucking it down. Car completely covered in solid ice and our estate road a skating rink. Car was so frozen, left it home and walked to work.


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    Tom Cruises Left Nut
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    Dewpoint, upper air temp, thickness I think

    Not very technical :)


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    Su Campu
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    It was -2 only right at the surface, but from only a few metres up it would have been above 0, so rain there would have been liquid.

    A sounding would have looked like this.

    freezerain.gif


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    Deep Easterly
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    Exactly the same process that resulted in the the big ice rains on Christmas Day 2009.


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    Iancar29
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    Y U NO PICTURES!?!

    tumblr_l96b01l36p1qdhmifo1_500.jpg


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    snaps
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Y U NO PICTURES!?!

    It was at 6.30 this morning in the pitch black!!!!!


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    Iancar29
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    snaps wrote: »
    It was at 6.30 this morning in the pitch black!!!!!


    DARN YOU DARRRRKNESS!!!!
    * SHAKES FIST *...


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