OPEN POST: Hoar Frost

Source: Globalnews.ca

A couple weeks ago your poor Captain was subjected to THREE STRAIGHT DAYS of fog.

"Wimp" - everyone from California and the UK

Because I live in the windswept nether regions of the western US, and it was December, it was also cold as hell. That means: freezing fog!

Freezing fog is just what it sounds like. When it's foggy and below freezing, that shit will just freeze onto whatever cold ass surface it comes in contact with. Trees. Cars. Roads. Your Captain's eyelashes.

But as stupid as freezing fog is, as icy as the roads were, and as much as I wondered when the hell did I move to Alaska on accident, freezing fog produces another one of those delightful weather words: hoar frost!

Actually, as Channel 5 somewhere in Iowa will school you to know, I was subjected to rime ice (where supercooled liquid water [liquid water below freezing temperature] freezes onto a surface).

Via weareiowa.com

But you know what? Rime ice doesn't sound as cool as hoar frost, so this Open Post is sponsored by the WHORE of the physical sciences.