Freezing Rain

January 24, 2013
Utah weather is crazy.

This morning we awoke to not snow. Not sunshine. Not rain. But freezing rain. Yes, you read that right. Freezing rain.

And this picture was the aftermath of said freezing rain. Only it was on everything... the roads, cars, houses, Blu (dumb dog wouldn't stay put in her dog house) and snow (the frozen snow was pretty cool looking... it was smooth and shiny almost like water).

As defined by Wikipedia, "freezing rain is the name given to rain that falls when surface temperatures are below freezing. Unlike rain and snow mixed, ice pellets, or hail, freezing rain is made entirely of liquid droplets. The raindrops become supercooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air many hundreds of feet above the surface, and then freeze upon impact with any object they encounter."

Thank heavens it's a rare phenomenon in Utah, occurring only 10 times since 1940.

And while Wikipedia makes freezing rain sound really cool, here's my definition of freezing rain: "freezing rain + morning rush hour + the most asinine traffic light in all of Utah = a very long commute."