the.com/ice storm
Rain that forgot the memo about gravity and freezes mid-handshake with your car.
means A weather event where rain falls as liquid but freezes instantly on contact with cold surfaces, coating everything in a slick shell of ice.
from A straightforward compound of 'ice' (from Old English 'is,' a very old Germanic word for frozen water) and 'storm' (Old English 'storm,' meaning violent weather or commotion, with Germanic relatives going back further still). The term itself is plainly descriptive rather than borrowed or invented with any twist — meteorologists and ordinary speakers alike just needed a name for the specific, nasty phenomenon of supercooled rain glazing the world on impact, and this did the job.
- formation
- warm air aloft, freezing layer at ground
- coating rate
- quarter inch of ice can snap power lines
- sound signature
- trees crack like gunfire under ice weight
- costliest version
- 2021 texas storm caused billions in damage