Ice hairs

[Hosskix]

I've never seen anything like it.
I went out to feed this morning and everything was covered with little ice crystals that looked like tiny hairs.
Unlike icicles, these grew out, up and every which way!

 

[deereguy]

That's really cool, never seen anything like that either. We had "snow rollers" a few years ago. Both are very interesting natural occurances!

 

[Thomas]

We get something like that on heavy frosty morning....twice as pretty when sun reflects.

 

[turnkey4099]

We get something like that on heavy frosty morning....twice as pretty when sun reflects.

Yeah. Really great after a night of fog with the temps below freezing. It is "hoar frost". Just had it here the other day. Saw it in Alaska so dense it would turn a chainlink fence into a solid white wall.

Harry K

 

[Richard]

What do ya get when you cross a thorney locust with a snowball!!

 

[Hosskix]

Yeah. Really great after a night of fog with the temps below freezing. It is "hoar frost". Just had it here the other day. Saw it in Alaska so dense it would turn a chainlink fence into a solid white wall.

Harry K

I KNEW someone on here would know what it was!
Just because I've never seen it doesn't mean it's new!

Hoar Frost, huh.
I've heard the term but never seen the results, pretty neat.
I guess in West Texas our air usually isn't damp enough.

 

[caver]

A couple years ago I was out hiking in Ha Ha Tonka State Park after a very cold night. I got to photograph my first frost flowers. At first I walked right by it thinking it was a piece of a styrofoam cup someone had thrown on the ground.

 

[AMP762]

"hoar frost". Can you say that on a family board?

 

[KentT]

The absolute prettiest sight that I have ever seen was hoar-frost at sunset on the tops of the Great Smoky Mountains. I and a couple of friends had walked the 1/2 mile to the Clingman's Dome observation tower (highest point on the Appalachian Trail), through a deep, murky cloudbank one late December evening. The clouds were actually settling in, moving down the mountainsides as the temperature dropped late in the day.

By the time we got to the top of the tower, the clouds had dropped completely down away from us, leaving only the very tops of the mountains sticking up out of a solid cloudbank. All the trees on those mountaintops were covered with hoar-frost, and the orange/red setting sun was refracting light off the frost like thousands of kaleidoscopes...

Here's a link to a sunrise view from there, to better visualize what this may have been like, except with oranges and reds instead of blues and purples:

Sunrise at Clingmans Dome - Landscapes Photo By: Juan Pons

 

[turnkey4099]

"hoar frost". Can you say that on a family board?

Only with a funny accent .

Back when I was a kid (don't ask) we had an old man neighbor name of "Ory C..." Of coures us kids always go a snicker out of it. I have always wondered it that was his real name.

Harry K