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This repo contains all the scripts used in the updated freezing rain/ice storms climatology of the Great Lakes region that I've been working on, along with the data itself.

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Create new definition of ice storm based on threshold hours of FZRA at any station

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Since we've seen that there aren't generally trends in the intensity of freezing rain, it looks like the duration of events was and still is a good proxy for the thickness of glaze ice that we could expect to have accreted at a location.

Since ice accretion is what we're interested for in regard to the definition of an ice storm, change its definition so that if any one station reports at least X hours of freezing rain within a specified time limit (say, six or twelve hours), then we can reasonably expect that there was society-relevant ice accretion at at least one location in the domain and include it in our ice storm dynamics analysis.

Done in c07c339