Freezing Rain: A Hidden Danger Freezing rain begins as snow high in the atmosphere. As it falls, it passes through a thick layer of above-freezing air and completely melts into liquid rain.

Tips for driving in snow and freezing rain. Drive slower. Like driving in the rain, snow-covered and slick road surfaces make it harder to control and stop your vehicle during regular driving.

Here's an explanation of how freezing rain and sleet form. Sleet forms in winter storms, while hail is a warm-season type of precipitation. Snow occurs when the atmosphere is "cold" all the way ...

SLEET: Snow and rain atmospheric profiles are relatively straightforward - either freezing temperatures exist all the way down, or they warm to above-freezing and stay there.

Freezing rain typically occurs when precipitation falls as rain and hits a cold air mass but doesn’t have time to turn into sleet or snow. That leads to it freezing on contact and creating a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Pacific Northwest will face various forms of winter precipitation this week: Rain, snow, freezing rain and sleet. While rain is fairly straightforward, the difference ...

Winter Weather advisories go into effect across the area at 7pm this evening and continue thru Thursday afternoon. This is not for snow totals, but for the potential at freezing rain which could ...

The snow and freezing rain -- mostly freezing rain -- will be the story Friday morning. But by 7 a.m., it will be mainly on the east side of the metropolitan area. Areas there won’t get above ...

Tips for driving in snow and freezing rain. Drive slower.Like driving in the rain, snow-covered and slick road surfaces make it harder to control and stop your vehicle during regular driving.

While all forms of precipitation start as snow high up in the clouds, there are four primary types that eventually reach the ground: snow, sleet, freezing rain and plain ol' rain. Snow occurs when ...