PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Freezing rain occurs when snow falls into a pocket of warmer air, where it melts, before reaching a thin layer of freezing-cold air near the Earth’s surface.

Then, those raindrops fall into a subfreezing layer below and become freezing rain (FZRA). So, in this case, there is a layer of air above that is warmer than 0 C. This kind of temperature profile ...

In most areas, precipitation starts as snow way up into the atmosphere and when there's a large layer of warm air that reaches all the way down to the surface, it falls as rain. Freezing rain is a ...

Because there must be warm air to produce freezing rain, it generally falls farther south than snow. Freezing rain sometimes marks the southern edge of wintry precipitation in weather systems.

Sleet is formed when snow falls into a warmer layer of air with temperatures above freezing. This causes the snowflakes to melt into rain. The rain droplets then fall into another deep cold layer ...

We'll call these "cold air" and "warm air," respectively ... but with a temperature below freezing. This is called freezing rain. This freezing rain then becomes a layer of ice that coats any ...

According to the National Weather Service, freezing rain is what happens when snow completely melts as it falls through a warmer layer of air and begins to refreeze as it passes through a thin ...

The warm nose is a shallow layer of air with above-freezing temperatures; below the warm nose, temperatures dip back below freezing. The warm layer allows snowflakes to partially melt into rain ...

Wind only adds to the misery by forcing trees to snap even easier. Because there must be warm air to produce freezing rain, it generally falls further south than snow. Freezing rain sometimes ...