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In addition to liquid precipitation, which are present when freezing rain occurs?

ice pellets
snowflakes
cold surfaces
warm temperatures

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Cold surfaces.

Freezing rain occurs when liquid (supercooled) raindrops fall into a subfreezing surface layer and freeze on contact with cold surfaces. Ice pellets and snowflakes are different precipitation types; warm temperatures aloft (not at the surface) help form the raindrops, but the key factor at the surface is cold temperatures/surfaces.