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Close Learn More Product Login. Examine this map for regional patterns and try to identify if the place where you live or visit has frequent freezing rain — you probably already know this answer, because freezing rain is not easily forgotten. A map of sleet would show a similar distribution. Since latitude and elevation largely control temperature, they also influence where freezing rain occurs.
On this map, freezing rain is frequent in the Midwest, exhibiting a pattern that follows the typical paths of storms as they move eastward across the country. Such storms have a northward counterclockwise flow along their eastern, leading edge, bringing relatively warm air from the south that in many cases forms a warm front.
Freezing rain is also frequent in the highland areas of the Northeast, including New England and some parts of the Appalachian Mountains. The freezing rain and sleet are the result of the same type of cyclonic storm system as in the Midwest.
Sleet and freezing rain are also common in other humid uplands in mid-latitudes around the world, such as the Alps , Japanese highlands, and parts of the Andes of South America. Movement of air against mountains can also cause freezing rain and sleet. When a cold air mass is next to a mountain range, the circulation associated with it will cause air to move upslope as it encounters higher terrain, as shown here.
The movement of air can be in response to larger scale clockwise flow in the Northern Hemisphere around an anticyclone , or from counterclockwise flow in the Northern Hemisphere around a cyclone. A cold air mass beside the mountain is dense, while the air wedged above it may be warmer, leading to a temperature inversion. While the inversion would also stabilize the local atmosphere above the cold surface air mass, the movement upslope by the circulation around the pressure system may result in forced convection that produces rain at the lowest elevations, freezing rain at higher elevations, sleet farther upslope, and snow at the highest elevations.
Mountain-caused freezing rain, sleet, and snow are frequent next to the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains in winter. Also called lead crystal or crystal glass. The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit.
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Supercooled water droplets occur in clouds a lot of the time, especially in winter, and they form a very important role in the way that rain forms. If these droplets then fall through a zone of sub-zero air just above the ground, they become supercooled. When these supercooled droplets strike surfaces that are close to or below freezing, they freeze on impact forming a glaze of ice. Freezing rain. How does freezing rain form?
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