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Title: ICE GLAZES POWER LINES AND TREES
Caption: Freezing rain turns to clear ice once it falls on a surface that is at or below freezing. Many tree limbs and utility lines, like these in the January 1998 ice storm in Watertown, New York, bend and break with the weight of accumulated ice. (Syracuse Newspaper/The Image Works)
Keywords: atmosphere, midlatitude cyclones, middle-latitude cyclones, precipitation, freezing rain, ice