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Editor's Note:

Freezing rains, the harsh winter weather across south China caused power failures and traffic nightmare in Guizhou Province, Hunan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region over the weekend. Local weather bureau said the icy rain will continue to pummel the provinces of Guizhou and Hunan for a week.

Background:
	The rain that immediately turned into ice on the ground is called freezing rain. During the winter, the raindrops become supercooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air, many hundred feet (or meters), and then freeze upon impact with any object they encounter.

 

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Frozen weather paralyzes SW province	Highways reopen after freezing rain strands thousands	Highway closed in S. China due to freezing rain

 

News:

 

• Snow, icy rain to continue in south China

• Millions brace for icy weather

• Alert extended for China's ice-covered south

• Cold snap causes more chaos in China

• Icy weather, sleet disrupts lives in S. China

• Freezing rain in south China prompts evacuation

• Cold snap disrupts water supply to over 570,000

• Thousands still stranded on ice-coated roads

• China on high alert of freezing rain in South

• Emergency response enacted to cope with freezing rain

• Drivers urged to use caution as freezing rains hit China

• Road worker dies on duty on icy highway

• Expressways reopen in China's south

• Weather conditions to improve in Guizhou and Hunan

• Thousands stranded as big freeze closes roads

• Flights delayed in SW China due to freezing rain 

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