Icing Type

Photos of rime and clear icing

Empirical studies have shown that the type of icing depends on the ambient temperature as well as the types of clouds (vertical motions) in the environment.

Therefore, to evaluate the potential for icing from a skew-T sounding plot, forecasters need to determine the thickness of the cloud/moist layer and the potential for supercooled conditions by examining the temperature, dewpoint depression, and lapse rate within the sounding.

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