A winter storm is an event in which the varieties of precipitation are formed that only occur at low temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are low enough to allow ice to form (i.e. freezing rain). In temperate continental climates, these storms are not necessarily restricted to the winter season, but may occur in the late autumn and early spring as well. Very rarely, they may form in summer, though it would have to be an abnormally cold summer, such as the summer of 1816 in the Northeast United States of America.
The Weather Channel has committed, beginning in the 2012–2013 season, to naming winter storms.
Read more about Winter Storm: Snow, Freezing Rain, Graupel, Ice Pellets, Rime
Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or storm:
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—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
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declining,
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—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)