Frozen Land
The freezing rain took control over Bucharest. The phenomenon has created a dangerous ice layer on roads, trees, cars and houses. More than 700 trees have fallen and at least 50 cars were damaged. This is the unpleasant part of the freezing rain. Anyway, freezing rain has a beautiful part exploited by photo lovers ... spectacular images of nature.
Freezing rain develops when falling snow encounters a layer of warm air aloft, causing the snow to melt and become rain. As the rain continues to fall, it passes through a layer of subfreezing air just above the surface and cools to a temperature below freezing. If this layer of subfreezing air is sufficiently deep, the raindrops may have time to freeze into ice pellets (sleet) before reaching the ground. However, if the subfreezing layer of air at the surface is very shallow, the rain drops falling through it will not have time to freeze and they will hit the ground as supercooled rain. When these supercooled drops make contact with the ground, power lines, tree branches, aircraft, or anything else below 0 °C, a portion of the drops instantly freezes, forming a thin film of ice, hence freezing rain.
Here are some pictures taken today in the Circus Park in Bucharest.
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