Freezing rain - Mechanism. 1  Freezing rain is often associated with the approach of a warm front, when subfreezing air (temperatures at or below freezing) is trapped in the lowest levels of the atmosphere while warm air advects in aloft.
Aegean Sunset on the Island of Patmos. The book of Revelation makes many allusions to the sea, and the sound of water. Patmos is a rocky island off the west coast of Asia Minor in the Aegean Sea, about 37 miles southwest of Miletus.
History of Patmos: According to mythology, Patmos was a present from Zeus to his daughter Artemis, goddess of hunting and young women. She was worshipped here in antiquity, and the monastery of St. John was built on her temple.t was here St. John had his vision and wrote the apocalypse, and this is why Patmos is sometimes called The Jerusalem of the Aegean. The Monastery of St. Johns towers above the capital, Chora, and the whole island breathes of faith and devotion. Nevertheless, there is more to the island than its Christian reputation.