Re: IJzelman- ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Rader" <jrader@...> wrote:

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> > 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.
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> > W.
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> A common name for this phenomenon in the northeast U.S. is "black
> ice." Black ice can also refer to the surface of a frozen pond in
> late fall, before the ice is covered with snow.
>
> Jim Rader

Black ice in my terminology is just dampness on a road that freezes
and becomes slippery. This is common this time of year.

Freezing rain is rain that falls through a cold layer of air and
becomes 'super cooled' It freezes on impact. When this condition
becomes severe it's called an 'ice storm'.

http://www.imiuru.com/icestormdiary/1pages/factsfigures.html

A spectacular case was the ice strom of 1998 in the Montreal area.

Peter P