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Bone-chilling Antarctic winter offers the unexpected: drizzle

‘Supercooled’ rain falls in the darkness of the long polar winter.
Ross Ice Shelf.

A cloud that extended over Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf (pictured) produced drizzle at temperatures far below freezing. Credit: Dale Lorna Jacobsen/Shutterstock

Even at –25 °C, it can still drizzle rather than snow.

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Nature 573, 467 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02788-x

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