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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Kim Bastin <kimb@...> wrote:
>
> "Freezing rain" is our unimaginative name for this phenomenon.
Though
> people in places like northern Canada or Scotland, who must see more
> of it, perhaps have other names.
>
My dictionary gave "glazed frost", which somehow sounded too weird to
trust. By the way, it can happen more or less anywhere if a period of
freezing wheather is followed by thaw. But I suppose it needs paved
streets for its effects to become spectacular. You can't keep
standing on the pavement and cars drift off into the unknown, but I
doubt somebody driving an oxcart on a dirtroad would even notice.
W.