The drought had ended, and they walked through snow and ice and freezing rain.
During ice storms, freezing rain can produce accumulations heavy enough to snap large trees and electrical lines.
And the snow, ice and freezing rain continued to move east across New England, and might have contributed to the collapse of an office building in Middletown, Conn., that sprayed bricks across Main Street.
States from North Carolina to New York were expected to be hit with ice and freezing rain on Friday, raising the prospect of downed utility lines and power outages through the weekend.
In Mississippi, Clif Lusk, a spokesman for the state's Emergency Management Agency, said that while the amount of snow was unusual, the storm could have been much worse if it had come with ice and freezing rain.
Equivalent uniform radial ice thicknesses accreted from freezing rain on wires, conductors, guys and cables with round cross sections are determined for the design of ice sensitive structures from field measurements or from simulations using historical weather data.
Snow is the main form of precipitation, but freezing rain, ice, sleet and sometimes even rain are all possible during the winter months.
It is common through much of its range, but in the northernmost areas it is rare, since it is vulnerable to hard winters, especially if its feeding is disrupted by an ice glaze on the trees or freezing rain.
This paper reports on an investigation of ice formation on a cylinder exposed to freezing rain.
The evaporation-enhanced ice thickness profiles based on data from freezing rain storms at nine weather stations in the United States can be approximated by a power law.
