Freezing rain forecast tomorrow for Scotland - Northern England says the Met office !!!!

Freezing rain could be possible tonight across Scotland and The north of England the Met office warned today..

Conditions have to be ‘just right’ to get freezing rain and it doesn’t happen very often in the UK, making it a relatively rare phenomenon.

The effects of freezing rain can have large impacts. It can create a layer of ice on anything cold it comes into contact with – this means not only a potential for icy roads and pavements, but also a risk to things like aircraft and powerlines.

Freezing rain is the name given to rain that falls when surface temperatures are below freezing. The raindrops become super cooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air, many hundred feet (or meters), just above the surface, and then freeze upon impact with any object they encounter. The resulting ice, called glaze, can accumulate to a thickness of several centimeters

A storm that produces a significant thickness of glaze ice from freezing rain is often referred to as an “ice storm“.