It’s only getting worse.
When the Spanish yard were planning the Norwegian corvettes, the Spaniards did not believe the icing on boats could sink them until they saw it themselves.
This is a fascinating weather phenomenon to me. Does it stick on surfaces or is it fragile and fall off easily?
…aaand winter has arrived. Down here we went from 12 to minus 2 degrees in just over a week.
i love it when that happens!
already snowy and -26 where I am though
You are so lucky to be living in this beauty!
Whether this is rime ice or hoar frost (and I think what we used to call “ice fog” in south-central Alaska was actually rime ice), it doesn’t have to be particularly cold for it to happen.
(“Not particularly cold” is always a judgement call. Depends on your frame of reference. To me, anything above 0F/-17C isn’t too bad as long as there’s no wind. Even below that, it’s the wind that makes things more challenging.)
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Hoar frost?
It’s only getting worse.
When the Spanish yard were planning the Norwegian corvettes, the Spaniards did not believe the icing on boats could sink them until they saw it themselves.
This is a fascinating weather phenomenon to me. Does it stick on surfaces or is it fragile and fall off easily?
…aaand winter has arrived. Down here we went from 12 to minus 2 degrees in just over a week.
i love it when that happens!
already snowy and -26 where I am though
You are so lucky to be living in this beauty!
Whether this is rime ice or hoar frost (and I think what we used to call “ice fog” in south-central Alaska was actually rime ice), it doesn’t have to be particularly cold for it to happen.
(“Not particularly cold” is always a judgement call. Depends on your frame of reference. To me, anything above 0F/-17C isn’t too bad as long as there’s no wind. Even below that, it’s the wind that makes things more challenging.)
It’s spectacular, in any case.
[Close up from yesterday](https://i.imgur.com/AAKnprU.jpg)
That is actually so pretty