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The rime frost forming on trees in the region differs from frost | Local News
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The rime frost forming on trees in the region differs from frost | Local News

(Undated)–The area boasts one of nature’s works of art on the area’s trees, and that’s rime frost you’re seeing. It forms when supercooled water droplets in fog freeze on contact with a surface like a tree branch or other objects, essentially “frosting” the object with ice. This appears as a “white, rough coating on the trees.”

How is it different from frost? Well, frost and frost are both types of ice that form on surfaces in cold weather. The main difference is that frost forms when “supercooled water droplets from fog or mist freeze on contact with a surface.” Meanwhile, frost forms when “water vapor turns directly into ice crystals on a cold surface without first becoming liquid.” Frost also appears in the form of delicate ice needles or scales with a feathery structure.