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Between 0C and -3C (32-26F) for freezing rain here. Usually at least once a winter, but not at all this past winter. When I lived down in the Southern Lakes, I'm sure there was freezing rain at -6C/20F, it was ice skating in the streets stuff.
We've had heavy freezing rain here on the Christmas eve of 2007, and it was debilitating for the traffic and people. The high that day was -1.5c and the low -3.6c. Later on, the freezing rain turned to snow, and we had a white Christmas with about 15 cm of snow
I just searched to find out, because its -17°c right now, and i just got a 30 second blast of frozen droplets on my windshield. It came from the sky im pretty sure. Cant see where else it would have come from seeing where i was at, and nonody else around.
I've only ever seen freezing rain three times; once in January 1996, then in January 2011 and February 2012. All three times it was between -2 and 0C. The 1996 one turned to snow eventually, the 2012 one only lasted an hour before the temperature rose, but the 2011 one was horrible. It was totally forecast and turned all the roads into ice rinks, but it was all invisible black ice that you couldn't see till you tried to walk on it.
Is all about the nose of warmth that comes in aloft.
What's more interesting is the thickness of the warmth. If its a thick layer of warmth freezing rain falls. A thin layer and its sleet.
I had sleet and freezing rain then snow going back and forth. That's fascinating because the atmosphere was changing between thickness of above/below freezing temps aloft while surface stayed below the whole time.
Also note the intensity makes a difference in what falls.
On 18 February 2017 Yellowknife had freezing drizzle at -13C.
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