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The NEXT Weather team breaks down four types of precipitation and what conditions create each one.
Lows tonight into Tuesday morning will be very cold, with temperatures in the teens possible in north Alabama and the 20s all the way into south Alabama: Wednesday could bring some rain, and it could last into Thursday morning. Right now the weather service isn’t expecting it to be cold enough for snow.
Here are five reasons why freezing rain is the worst precipitation type:
When freezing rain totals get up to 1/4", we start to see this weighing down trees and power lines a bit more. Isolated power outages are possible, but they are generally fairly isolated. Travel becomes hazardous, and the roads are an ice skating rink.