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Latest Newscasts. Submit Photos and Videos. While the dazzling display of crystalline beauty was due to the freezing fog, many assumed the frosty display was hoar frost. However, the tree branches, pine needles, and dried fall foliage flocked with spiky crystals were actually covered with rime ice. According to DTN meteorologists, rime ice forms when supercooled droplets freeze and attach onto an exposed surface.
In order for the droplets to form into ice. When supercooled droplets from fog freeze and attach onto an exposed surface, you get rime ice. We tend to see it more on the prairies," Lang explains. We see the worst events when the temperatures are —4 C to —7 C. If it gets colder than that, the air gets drier and we don't see the fog banks as much. That's what attracts everybody," Lang says. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.
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