Posts Tagged: freezing rain

April 11th 2013 Ice Storm

Surface analysis 15Z Thu Apr 11 2013

Surface analysis 15Z Thu Apr 11 2013


March 24th 2016

A day and night of freezing rain coated trees, homes and roads with 40-45mm of ice. The storm was a product of an Oklahoma low with a potent surface warm front that simply stalled out and could not overcome the dominant sub-freezing easterly flow just north of the great lakes. This created a perfect storm so to speak where the heaviest rain sat right on an axis of rotation and pummelled some areas just north of Toronto for excess of 24 hours. The result was significant ice accretion leading to substantial tree and infrastructure damage.

King Radar - Ice Storm Loop

WPC Surface Analysis

The storm while destructive was also very much a rare beast of beauty! As the low departed on good Friday and gaveway to a strong ridge of high pressure, bright sunshine broke through illuminating the glazed icy landscape north of Toronto. I headed out on a photographic journey to explore the beauty and the simultaneous destruction that nature delivered.

December 20th 2013 – The Historic Ice Storm