Freezing rain can never "see" directly freezing rain, rain or snow on weather radars, Doppler or conventional. However, it is possible to estimate the area covered by freezing rain with radars indirectly. The intensity of the radar echoes (reflectivity) is proportional to the form (water or ice) of the precipitation and its diameter. In fact, rain has much stronger reflective power than snow but its diameter is much smaller. So the reflectivity of rain coming from melted snow is only slightly higher. However, in the layer where the snow is melting, the wet flakes still have a large diameter and are coated
Gregory M. Sleet the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Moneta Sleet Jr. Gregory M. Sleet Gregory Moneta Sleet (born March 8, 1951 in New York City, New York) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Sleet was born in New York City, New York. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University in 1973. He received a Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law–Camden in 1976, where he was an Earl Warren Scholar. He was an assistant public defender, Defender Association of Philadelphia from 1976 to 1983. He was in