Are residing updates as heavy snow shuts roads and traps drivers in cars overnight

Assemble ready for freezing rain!

The Met Space of job is warning that a uncommon and odd phenomenon known as “freezing rain” will hit the South West.

Differing from sleet and snow, the “supercooled droplets” can freeze straight away on affect with the ground, and can fair purpose important disruption, the forecasters mumble.

This is the most modern in a long line of warnings from the Met Space of job, who’ve already save in set four climate warnings for the following couple of days.

But what in fact is freezing rain?

A Met Space of job spokesman stated: “Snow, sleet and freezing rain all open up existence in sub-zero clouds as ice crystals.

“It’s a long way the temperature of the ambiance they topple thru that determines how these crystals will topple to earth.

“Snowflakes earn when ice crystals ‘stick together’, as they topple thru the cloud.

“To realize the ground, snow must remain frozen from cloud to floor.

“Sleet is fashioned when snow falls thru a layer of heat air, melting into raindrops, sooner than refreezing into ice pellets as they hit a chillier layer of air.

“Freezing rain kinds when snow melts in the an identical skill as sleet, but completely freezes when it hits a in fact shallow layer of frigid air come the ground, turning into ‘supercooled’ – staying as a liquid despite its temperature being below Zero levels.

“When these supercooled droplets topple on ground which shut to or below Zero levels they’ll freeze straight away on affect, turning to ice.”