Almost every year there is news about ice storms. Most often they happen in North America. This phenomenon leads to massive flight cancellations, power outages, accidents and even deaths.
An ice storm is supercooled precipitation that falls at subzero temperatures in combination with gusty winds.
Ice storms most often occur when moist warm sea air comes to the territory where there have recently been frosts. Therefore, ice storms occur annually in the USA. In recent years , storms have also been observed in the northern part of Russia .
The strongest ice storm was a storm in 2021 in Texas . As a result of this disaster, 210 people were killed, and the economic damage was estimated at $ 23 billion.
The last storm also occurred in Texas on February 1 , 2023 .