However, one precipitation type that can also occur is freezing rain, and it can do a lot of damage without much precipitation falling. The other forms of winter precipitation can also cause ...

When water falls from a cloud, it is precipitation. Liquid precipitation is rain or freezing rain. If the drops are smaller ...

An ice jam forms when warmer weather starts breaking up the ice on rivers, causing chunks of ice, or ice floes, to float ...

The Met Office explains that freezing rain forms when rain droplets fall through cold air just before hitting the ground. Often, precipitation first falls from a cloud as snow, it then melts into ...