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Beautiful Rime
« on: January 21, 2015, 07:19:11 PM »

 Elusive rime near Jilin (Gabrielle Jaffe)

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From late November to early March, dazzlingly white ice crystals form on the trees along the city’s Songhua River. Giving trees the appearance that they’ve been carefully dusted with sugar, these crystals form only when fog freezes.


Fog over the Songhua River. (Gabrielle Jaffe)

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Re: Beautiful Rime
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2015, 07:22:56 PM »

Rime under blue skies (Gabrielle Jaffe)

When fog forms below 0C, its super-cooled water droplets remain liquid, even though the temperature is below freezing. But as soon as the droplets brush something solid such as a tree branch, they freeze instantly. Tiny ice granules build up, growing into feathery white forms known as rime.


Two trees amid the rime (Gabrielle Jaffe)

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Re: Beautiful Rime
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2015, 07:24:13 PM »

Rime tourists bundled up against the cold (Gabrielle Jaffe)

For rime to occur, it needs a combination of cold climate, sufficient airborne moisture and clear skies overhead. Typically this happens in the interior of large continents, in a protected river valley or on mountain slopes shrouded in mist. Located at a latitude of 44 degrees north and some 350km inland, Jilin’s geography is ideal for the formation of rime. Despite air temperatures sometimes dipping as low as -32C, a hydropower dam on the city’s river keeps the water flowing, which in turn encourages the creation of milky white freezing fog.


Rime near the Songhua River (Gabrielle Jaffe)

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Re: Beautiful Rime
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2015, 07:25:00 PM »

Headlights, rime and fog (Gabrielle Jaffe)


Portrait of the 'icy flowers' (Gabrielle Jaffe)

from The quest to see China’s extraordinary frozen fog, 15 January 2015, by Gabrielle Jaffe,Nature & Outdoors, more at http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20150114-the-quest-to-see-chinas-extraordinary-frozen-fog/1

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