19 January 2023 / Boulder Weekly / Kaylee Harter
Background

Hard rain

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia

Rain began to fall on the already snow-covered Yamal Peninsula, an Arctic region of northwest Siberia, in November 2013. Rain fell for the next 24 hours.  As rain saturated the snow, the temperature dropped below freezing, turning the precipitation into a thick, icy crust. 


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