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The term "hoarfrost" is derived from the Old English meaning of frost resembling an old man's beard. The fence around a tennis court is covered with hoarfrost on 24 November 2020, Bavaria ...
Hoar frost on the snow surface from crystallized water vapor emerging on a cold, clear night Cornice on an alp in France Snowdrift in Gloucestershire Sastrugi in Norway Alpine firn in Austria Penitentes under the night sky of the Atacama Desert Suncups in England Packing snow being rolled into a large snowball in Oxford, England.
A heavy coating of hoar frost, called white frost, is very similar in appearance to soft rime, but the formation process is different; it happens when there is no fog, but very high levels of air relative humidity (above 90%) and temperatures below −8 °C (18 °F). Soft rime formations appear as narrow white icy needles and scales.
Hoar frost, also hoarfrost, radiation frost, or pruina, refers to white ice crystals deposited on the ground or loosely attached to exposed objects, such as wires or leaves. [3] They form on cold, clear nights when conditions are such that heat radiates into outer space faster than it can be replaced from nearby warm objects or brought in by ...
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The three main types of ground frost are radiation frost (), advection frost (advection hoar frost) and evaporation frost.The latter is a rare type which occurs when surface moisture evaporates into drier air causing its temperature at the surface to fall at or under the freezing point of water. [1]
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