Ice Storms

1. Ice Storms By Leo

2. An ice storm is a type of winter storm caused my freezing rain. What is an ice storm?

3. Freezing rain is rain that freezes on contact. What is freezing rain?

4. Freezing rain is caused when you have warm air in-between the ground and the clouds and freezing air near the surface. When the precipitation falls from the cloud, it will generally be snow. As it falls it will hit the warmer part of the air and melt to regular rain,right before it reaches the ground, it enters the below-freezing air and quickly turns into ice on impact. It usually freezes to whatever it lands on.  How is freezing rain is formed?

5. The North AmericanIce Storm of 1998

6. The North American Ice Storm of 1998 was a massive combination of five small ice storms. On January 5 and January 10, 1998 for more than 80 hours, freezing rain and drizzle fell over an area of several thousand square miles that included Eastern Ontario, an area in southern Quebec, northern New York, and northern New England including parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. What? When? Where?

7. The North American Ice Storm of 1998 caused billions of dollars worth of damage, it left more than 4 million people with out electricity, some went weeks with out it, the ice storm also left 945 injured and 35 dead. The North American Ice Storm of 1998 is the largest ice storm ever recorded in Canada. The Damage