ice storms
Slick winter disasters
An ice storm is a weather event in which freezing rain accumulates as a coating of ice on surfaces.
Unlike snow, the precipitation falls as liquid and freezes on contact with cold ground, trees, and power lines.
Ice storms cause dangerous driving conditions, downed branches, and widespread power outages: The ice storm left thousands without electricity for days.
- freezing rainPrecipitation forming ice on surfaces
- winter stormSevere cold-season weather
- frozen precipitationIce falling from sky
- hailsSignals to stop
- wind chillApparent temperature from airflow
sleet · polar vortex · winter weather advisory · hoarfrost · power outages · downed power lines · glaze · snowdrifts · gales · tree limbs · cold front · frostbite · hypothermia · icy · branches · subzero temperatures · utility poles · warming centers
- wintersnow, cold, frozen, frost, snowflakes
- driving weathericy roads, wet roads, slippery roads, hydroplaning, visibility
- northern weatherblizzard, blizzards, snowfall, cold snap, cold
- Seasonal Changesbloom, thaw, freeze, leafing, budding
- winter weatherblizzards, blizzard, snow, snowstorm, snowstorms
- forest damageforest fire, forest fires, wildfires, bark beetle, bark beetles
ice stormsheat waves
Sustained extreme high temperatures
droughts · hot spells · extreme heat · scorching heat · dust storms
ice stormsheat waves
Sustained extreme high temperatures
scorchers · hot weather · tropical heat · desert heat · summer heat
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