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Discover Ludwig"freezing rain" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to rain that falls at a temperature below freezing, forming a layer of ice when it hits the ground. For example: "Icy roads were caused by the freezing rain last night."
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freezing rain
noun
Rain which freezes upon contact.
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While the interior sections of the Northeast received mostly snow from the system, the Mid-Atlantic received snow, sleet, freezing rain and non-freezing rain.
And pitches a tent in freezing rain.
Thursday for up to 0.25 inches of freezing rain.
New Hampshire awoke to light snow, freezing rain and sleet.
This paper reports on an investigation of ice formation on a cylinder exposed to freezing rain.
They were on foot, the terrain proving inaccessible by car through freezing rain.
The drought had ended, and they walked through snow and ice and freezing rain.
Why do we think the precipitation will change from snow to sleet, freezing rain and rain?
Over the 25 years from 1989 to 2014, there were only 16 observations of freezing rain.
Early today, a light coat of freezing rain was falling on the area.
From early morning on, there was snow, freezing rain and relentless wind.
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