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- Dictionaryhoar frost/ˈhɔːfrɒst/
noun
- 1. a greyish-white crystalline deposit of frozen water vapour formed in clear still weather on vegetation, fences, etc.
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- From a more scientific standpoint, frost or hoarfrost forms when moisture in the air skips the water droplet stage and appear directly as ice crystals on an object. However, hoarfrost is much more rare and photogenic than your standard windshield or garden variety frost.
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"Hoarfrost forms under clear skies, clear and cold. Any moisture that's in the air goes from the gaseous state, meaning there is water vapour in the air and you can't see it. It skips that liquid phase and it goes right into solids," Lang says. "So it goes from a gas to a solid, it forms right onto the tree. There is no melting in between."
"It usually forms when there is a lot of low cloud, foggy conditions. You can see the moisture particles in the air," Lang says. "Those particles you see floating around in the fog are liquid. Those tiny particles can stay liquid up until –25 C. As soon as those liquid drops encounter something solid like a tree, a power line, a car, they immediate...
"You have to go right up to the tree and look at the way the particles are," she says. "Rime ice looks more like droplets. They are heavier, the trees are weighed down. They are harder to break off. Hoarfrost is usually a lot lighter, more feather-like. You can just blow it off."
"What makes rime icing dangerous, when the fog stays for days, it can build up and it's really, really heavy, whereas hoarfrost on a branch, you can just blow on it and it blows away. Hoarfrost is so light. That's the big difference. Rime ice can cause big power outages or even bring down airplanes, when they fly through a cloud with a lot of these...
"We tend to see hoarfrost where it gets colder, so you wouldn't see it as much on the [B.C.] Lower Mainland. We tend to see it more on the prairies," Lang explains. "Rime icing can occur pretty much anywhere the temperature goes below freezing. We see the worst events when the temperatures are –4 C to –7 C. If it gets colder than that, the air gets...
Feb 21, 2019 · Hoar frost is a type of feathery frost that forms as a result of specific climatic conditions. The word ‘hoar’ comes from old English and refers to the old age appearance of the frost: the way the ice crystals form makes it look like white hair or a beard.
Oct 20, 2015 · When these water vapor molecules contact a subfreezing surface, such as a blade of grass, they jump directly from the gas state to solid state, a process known as "deposition", leading to a coating...
hoarfrost, deposit of ice crystals on objects exposed to the free air, such as grass blades, tree branches, or leaves. It is formed by direct condensation of water vapour to ice at temperatures below freezing and occurs when air is brought to its frost point by cooling.
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Nov 30, 2016 · Hoar frost forms when water vapour in the air comes into contact with an object that is below freezing. Rather than the water vapour first condensing onto the object and then freezing, the water vapour immediately freezes to form ice crystals.
Jan 10, 2023 · Hoar frost is similar to dew in a lot of ways. It happens on cold and clear nights. Water vapour (gas form) freezes onto a surface at below-freezing temperatures, skipping the liquid...
