February 2007 North American blizzard Due to the three-dimensional nature of the atmosphere, warm air was poised to overtake the cold air closer to the ground, causing precipitation to melt, then refreeze as either sleet or freezing rain. As temperatures hovered around freezing on the southern edge of the storm track, light snow accompanied freezing rain and sleet. The freezing rain coated all surfaces with thick layers of ice, including power lines and tree limbs which break under the additional weight. Some locations in the Mid-Atlantic received several inches of sleet. Four inches (100 mm) of sleet caused travel difficulties and hampered cleanup efforts in
Centenary 1000 Mt St Bernard and Hotham Heights. The stage however was interrupted with a torrential downpours of rain hail and sleet and the race was suspended at Mt Buffalo, after covering around . The riders were accommodated at the Mt Buffalo Chalet as they were effectively marooned, with the road to Wangaratta under of water, the Alpine road over Mt St Bernard was impassable and of snow fell at Mt Hotham. Milliken suffered a puncture on Mt Buffalo and had to wait more than an hour for a spare wheel. It was reported that he was almost frozen and he abandoned