When they returned to the Paradise ranger station, their whiskers and eyebrows were frosted with snow and their parkas and packs armored in rime ice.
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Rime ice can pose a hazard to an airliner when it forms on a wing as an aircraft flies through a cloud of super-cooled droplets.
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The orange-to sometimes red-flowered and deciduous rime ice ( frozen fog ) can be separated from green valleys by very bright and varied leaf colors.
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The color of asphalt remains as usual while the underlying mixture may still cause a critical loss of traction comparable to that of driving on rime ice.
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There is little snow in winter, with the island remaining icebound for several months, the ice forms varying from solid firn, through glazed surfaces, to rime ice.
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See Avalanche, the Basics-Part 2 : Staying Safe; " " Rime Ice is caused when super-cooled water vapour hits a freezing object ( rocks, fence posts etc ).
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Rime ice, which is visible, forms when droplets of freezing drizzle adhere to the roadway with air trapped inside because the drops do not splatter when they hit.
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"Mount Washington is the rime ice capital of the world, " said Dave Thurlow, who produces a nationally syndicated radio weather show at the observatory's North Conway office, 40 miles from here.
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Major trees include oak, hickory, and passes ( often called gaps or notches ) are often distorted and even contorted by the wind, and persistent rime ice deposited by passing clouds in the winter.
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Though it was called a " hoarfrost " by the weather observer, the icy patina was really rime ice, a type of rough, granular ice that forms when cold fog droplets freeze on contact with cold surfaces.
