Sentences with phrase «as freezing rain»

When this freezing occurs only upon the impact of the raindrop with the ground, the precipitation is known as freezing rain.

Residents across New York may experience some flooding as the freezing rain and melting snow hits, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office is urging citizens to take precautions in case that occurs.

Not exact matches

The storm will bring high winds, snow and freezing rain through the central and northern Plains and the Great Lakes areas as it moves east.

Winter is here, and it's about to get even colder in the northeastern and midwestern parts of the U.S. Winter storm Grayson has already begun delivering freezing rain and snow to states as south as Florida, coating Tallahassee with snow for the first time in 28 years.

I don't care if it rains or freezes, as long as I got my plastic Jesus!

Fear of freezing to death, or of torrential rains that can be as bone - penetrating as the cold.

As if that wasn't enough we then got another 6 - 8 inches (what the?!?) topped with off with more freezing rain.

Of course, if there's a torrential downpour, freezing rain or very inclement weather, then we consider that as well.»

Babies who are 0 - 6 weeks of age should be kept indoors as much as possible when temperatures reach freezing or when temperatures above freezing are accompanied by wind and rain.

Faced with a blizzard of criticism from angry parents forced to trudge with their kids to school through a nor» easter that dumped up to three inches of snow an hour on the Big Apple, a seemingly out - of - touch Chancellor Carmen Fariña defended the call to keep classes open Thursday — blindly declaring it «a beautiful day out there» as wet flakes and freezing rain continued to pelt New Yorkers.

Rain, freezing rain and sleet will change to all snow by late Sunday afternoon as a winter storm moves through Western New YRain, freezing rain and sleet will change to all snow by late Sunday afternoon as a winter storm moves through Western New Yrain and sleet will change to all snow by late Sunday afternoon as a winter storm moves through Western New York.

But as we move [d] down the coast and we also start [ed] to go under these islands which were filled with young penguin chicks — penguins are all kind of born in November, they leave the nest in the first week of February or so and when we were seeing them in January, they were still covered by down and this was during that kind of torrential rain period that we saw, and as a result these penguin chicks which were [a] couple months old covered in down are getting soaked by cold rain during the day and then at night time the temperature drops down into the teens and they are freezing and dying.

Once dissolved in large water droplets and frozen, however, it falls back to Earth as acid rain in a matter of hours.

What goes up, must come down and, more and more, that water vapor is coming down in extreme precipitation events — defined in North America as more than 100 millimeters of rainfall (or the equivalent in snow or freezing rain) falling in 24 hours — according to new research also published February 17 in Nature that examines such events in the Northern Hemisphere.

Ice - nucleating bacteria — which have been referred to as «rain - making bacteria» — may be significant triggers of freezing in clouds and influence the water cycle.

(Rain has been falling at the expense of snow in the lower third of the island as temperatures rise above freezing, though.)

But I like to travel with a warm cardigan as well: not just for the cool but not raining days, but to use as a robe in my room, and to wear on the plane which is often freezing... sometimes light layers are just not sufficient, and one great sweater is all it takes to make me happy.

The t - shirt is so stylish - it looks as though it had rained there recently, I hope you weren't quietly freezing to death haha?!

As a former cross country runner + track girl, you'd think I'd be all about it — but really, I think countless days running endless miles at the crack o» dawn in the pouring rain, in the freezing cold, in lightning storms (seriously, my coach is going to have to answer to that one day)... really, it just scarred me forevermore.

· WEATHER AND TEMPERATURE: In the north, rain and snow can make you freeze to death and in the desert, the burning sun can be equally as deadly.

Although freezing rain gives way to snow flurries by midafternoon, there is no way we can play driftmeister hooligan on one of the nearby frozen lakes, as the ice is sadly too thin even for Porsche's new lightweight 718 Boxster prototype we've come here to play with in the cold.

While it might lack the sophistication of AWD systems in such legendary off - road brands as Jeep and Land Rover, it worked just fine during a day of freezing rain and ice.

A dry, wind - proof shelter can do a large part in fending off frostbite in the ears and paws from elements such as freezing winds, snow and rain.

It may be summer now, but as they say on Game of Thrones, winter is coming — and bringing ice, freezing rain, thunder snow, and all sorts of awful combinations along with it.

Keith Jennings, a graduate researcher and lead author of the study, said his team was surprised to find that freezing point at zero degrees Celsius or 32 Fahrenheit was not the key factor in whether precipitation fell as rain or snow, but more where the precipitation was falling.

There is also plenty of rain during this time of year as the region gets an average of 70 mm both liquid and frozen precipitation.

If temperatures are at or below freezing (which is true even during this warmer - than - average winter in Colorado), that moisture will precipitate as snow, not rain.

The new design, which is offered at the same price point ($ 249), is said to be easier to install and test, to require less space, to include manual control from the box itself (you know, for those non-smartphone days), and to have an additional sensor port (for rain, freeze, or flow sensors), as well as be mounted outside with a custom - designed weatherproof enclosure.

For example, freezing rain, which results in ice storms, is not represented in climate models, but frequencies of daily minimum temperatures on wet days might serve as useful surrogate variables (Konrad, 1998).

This airmass is also expected to be incredibly warm for a California precipitation event; freezing levels could be as high as 10,000 feet or even higher during the initial part of the storm, with rain (instead of snow) expected at even very high mountain locations.

The key climatic variables for this evaluation are rain wetting and exterior temperatures as they dictate the number of expected freeze - thaw cycles and conditions for embedded metal corrosion.

«Our demonstrator also looked at specific regional effects that may have an impact on particular applications, such as the effect of climate change on freezing rain or hydropower plant inflows,» says Robert Vautard, team leader at CEA for the C3S contract.

AGW climate scientists seem to ignore that while the earth's surface may be warming, our atmosphere above 10,000 ft. above MSL is a refrigerator that can take water vapor scavenged from the vast oceans on earth (which are also a formidable heat sink), lift it to cold zones in the atmosphere by convective physical processes, chill it (removing vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) or freeze it, (removing even more vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) drop it on land and oceans as rain, sleet or snow, moisturizing and cooling the soil, cooling the oceans and building polar ice caps and even more importantly, increasing the albedo of the earth, with a critical negative feedback determining how much of the sun's energy is reflected back into space, changing the moment of inertia of the earth by removing water mass from equatorial latitudes and transporting this water vapor mass to the poles, reducing the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and speeding up its spin rate, etc..

Frozen precipitation, falling to levels of the atmosphere that are much warmer than 0 °C, often melts and reaches the ground as rain.

As temperatures rise, the likelihood of precipitation falling as rain rather than snow increases, especially in autumn and spring at the beginning and end of the snow season, and in areas where temperatures are near freezinAs temperatures rise, the likelihood of precipitation falling as rain rather than snow increases, especially in autumn and spring at the beginning and end of the snow season, and in areas where temperatures are near freezinas rain rather than snow increases, especially in autumn and spring at the beginning and end of the snow season, and in areas where temperatures are near freezing.

Further melting since this time now threatens to open holes in a drop zone used for airborne training, and freezing rain — which has more frequently replaced snow as temperatures have warmed — has damaged equipment, delaying certain training for repairs.

«Observed» data is the water equivalent estimation of all types of precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, hail) derived from NWS River Forecast Centers (RFCs), and is displayed as a gridded field with a spatial resolution of 4x4 km.

-- First we increase the greenhouse gases — then that causes warming in the atmosphere and oceans — as the oceans warm up, they evaporate more H2O — more moisture in the air means more precipitation (rain, snow)-- the southern hemisphere is essentially lots of water and a really big ice cube in the middle called Antarctica — land ice is different than sea ice — climate models indicated that more snowfall would cause increases in the frozen H2O — climate models indicated that there would be initial increases in sea ice extent — observations confirm the indications and expectations that precipitation is increasing, calving rates are accelerating and sea ice extent is increasing.

As in lowering skies and freezing rain?

Most of the time, soil expansion occurs because of moisture within the soil (such as from rain or snow) getting into the soil and freezing.

November 24, 2015 News Releases Proper Insurance Will Prevent Winter Weather Despair OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak is encouraging Oklahomans to prepare for the winter weather season as weather forecasters warn about the possibility of freezing rain and flooding over the holiday weekend.

Sunday night, rain and snow will move back into the forecast as temperatures fall below freezing.