Freezing rain phenomena. Case study: Bucharest metropolitan area, January 24-29, 2019

Abstract

The paper has a structure with four parts and presents the climatic risk aspects that happened in Romania during the winter of the year 2019, concentrating on Bucharest, where a very rare and dangerous phenomenon occurred, `freezing rain`. The first part contains the theoretical analysis of the subject under discussion (the notion of risk and freezing rain), in the second part we analyzed the synoptic context (the causes that led to the phenomena) and the datacollected, the third part presents the results of the research (the duration of phenomena and the case study in the city), and the last part deals with proposed measures in order to reduce the risk of freezing rain, measures that can apply to any dangerous weather phenomena with freezing deposits. Therefore, the study aims to analyze this risk starting from the theoretical explanation of the synoptic context that generated its production to the quantitative analysis of the phenomena. To achieve this objective, the periods ECMWF models and the synoptic databases were accessed, with the help of which the representation and evolution of the phenomena was managed.

Keywords

• freezing rain
• climatic risk
• weather phenomena
• bucharest metropolitan area