1.   Snow and freezing rain have been bogging down traffic on Connecticut roads this week.

2.   Along the northern edge of the precipitation shield, the air will be cold enough to produce pockets of freezing rain in Nebraska and northern Kansas.

3.   Also, because the heaviest snow often occurs at temperatures near freezing, mixtures of sleet and freezing rain complicate snowfall forecasts.

4.   An area of snow, sleet and freezing rain will occur from North Texas to Illinois.

5.   An arctic air mass sweeping south into the southern Plains will cause light snow and freezing rain to develop in the Texas Panhandle late Tuesday and Tuesday night.

6.   And in a tale likely repeated to every generation since then, Stevens says he rode the horse about four miles once during sleet and freezing rain.

7.   And pitches a tent in freezing rain.

8.   Any patches of freezing rain in the deeper valleys will end as drizzle as temperatures crawl above freezing.

9.   Area street crews, bolstered by early praise of their efforts, were optimistic that they could keep up with continuing freezing rain and sleet today.

10.   Around mid-morning Tuesday, freezing rain glazed bridges and overpasses near Abilene, Texas, while other road surfaces remained ice-free.