Wuhan - Freezing rain, it's beautiful but also a disaster
As the New Year of 2024 approaches,
It's time for the annual Spring Festival travel rush
Eager to return home and reunite
But the weather is not as expected
We need to pay high attention to the weather during the Spring Festival travel rush
The rime formed by freezing rain is a beautiful natural landscape, but it is also a disaster.
💙Meteorological science popularization for children, understand the formation principle of freezing rain and its powerful destructive power
🌧Freezing rain
It is a kind of disastrous weather seen in early winter or late winter and early spring.
🥶Analysis
Freezing rain is supercooled raindrops (temperature below 0℃ but not frozen into ice) that quickly freeze into ice when they encounter objects with temperatures below 0℃ during their fall, that is, it rains in the sky and turns into ice when it hits the ground.
🧊Alias
It is also known as ground armor, freezing, freezing, falling ice, ground oil, flowing ice, tung oil freezing.
🔵Relationship
Freezing rain and rime are of the same kind, both are ice shells formed by supercooled water droplets adhering to the surface of objects. Among them, freezing rain is a special type of precipitation and weather phenomenon, while rime is its by-product, a kind of disaster or landscape, that is, the commonly seen ice crystal tree hanging. Freezing rain is not the only cause of rime formation, but if it rains freezing, rime will definitely form.
⚠️Hazard
Freezing rain can cause harm to power communication, transportation, agriculture, and people
🔴Warning level
The freezing warning levels from low to high are yellow, orange, and red, and the main difference between different levels of freezing warnings is the duration of freezing weather.