Freezing Rain（冰雨）

Freezing rain is a type of precipitation that begins as snow at higher altitude, falling from a cloud towards earth, melts completely on its way down while passing through a layer of air above freezing temperature, and then encounters a layer below freezing at lower level to become supercooled. This water will then freeze upon impact with any object it encounters. The ice can accumulate to a thickness of several centimetres, called glaze ice. The METAR code for freezing rain is FZRA.

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[aurora990]

what you were showing was sleet. sleet falls through the same air that causes freezing rain. sleet are transparent or translucent beads of ice smaller than hail.

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