My new favourite thing, courtesy of the Spring Day 3 weather forecast for this region? Freezing drizzle. What? Yes, that’s what they said on the radio: we have a yellow advisory for freezing drizzle. And the internet agreed.
I’d never heard of freezing drizzle so I went looking, and it really is a thing: Wikipedia, the Muskoka Region website, and NAV CANADA all agree. I skimmed the explanations and am no more learned than before. Your mileage may vary, so here’s a bit from Wikipedia:
Although freezing drizzle and freezing rain are similar in that they both involve liquid precipitation above the surface in subfreezing temperatures and freeze on the surface, the mechanisms leading to their development are entirely different. Where freezing rain forms when frozen precipitation falls through a melting layer and turns liquid, freezing drizzle forms via the supercooled warm-rain process, in which cloud droplets coalesce until they become heavy enough to fall out of the cloud, but in subfreezing conditions.
