ice storm

a storm of freezing rain and widespread glaze formation.

Origin of ice storm

First recorded in 1875–80

Happily, Captain De Haven was spared the necessity of choosing between the alternatives: the ice-storm did not reach us.

Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack |Elisha Kent Kane
The oversight is strange, for in America the ice-storm is an event.

Following the Equator, Complete |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
The wrath of the skipper leaning over the bow was almost more terrible to face than any ice-storm would have been.

Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North |Fullerton Waldo
It occurs to me now that I have never seen the ice-storm put upon canvas, and have not heard that any painter has tried to do it.

Following the Equator, Complete |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

The ice-storm occurs in midwinter, and usually its enchantments are wrought in the silence and the darkness of the night.

Following the Equator, Complete |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

ice storm

mainly US a storm of freezing rain that deposits a glaze of ice on the ground