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Rime, freezing fog, and crystalline spider webs

January 22nd, 2013
The Pacific Northwest has been foggy a lot lately, but the fog droplets have been subzero, or supercooled. When such fog droplets hit an object, they almost always freeze. The resulting frozen aggregate is called rime. Freezing fogs make rime. The… more »