Today it's gray - gray with drizzle. It's cold enough that you'd expect any precipitation to be in the form of snow, but no - it's raining lightly. According to www.weatherquestions.com, "Freezing drizzle can occur if it is produced in clouds forming in a warm air layer overlying a shallow cold air layer whose surface temperature is below freezing. The layer of air must be shallow enough so that the drizzle drops do not have time to freeze before they reach the ground."
Drizzle is big pain - every surface ends up coated with ice, especially curved surfaces. I hate having to clear my car windows in this kind of weather. First, you have to navigate to the car over the slick sidewalk and driveway. You get the door unlocked and pull, only to realize the drizzle has frozen the door shut. So, you pull. And pull. And tug. And, of course, when the ice breaks, the door flies open and you need to grab it to keep from flying backwards into the garden. You can start the car and crank the heat. To high. Grab the scraper and now you get the fun task of trying to remove the thick skin of ice that is as strong as concrete, but a lot colder. Scrape, brush, scrape, brush, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle...cleaning the windows is an interesting dance. And I prefer singing to dancing. But drizzle just makes me curse rather than sing...
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