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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is freezing fog?
I've never heard that term before, but when I looked at the forecast at my brother's house, that's what it said. He's currently in the middle of a white out.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)In freezing fog it coats everything with ice I believe.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)And horrible!
Baitball Blogger
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)The water droplets in the air contact the ground and other things, and if the temperature if low enough, those tiny droplets freeze into ice. So you can't see, and can't stop.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Especially if there wasn't already two feet of snow covering everything!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Is what it is.
It's one of the worst things that can happen to an airplane.
Ice build up on wings and fuselage.
Changes their aerodynamics.
Most airliners have anti-ice devices.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)(the flight stopped in either Toronto or Montreal) and the first time I flew over (1991, if memory serves) we had to divert to Glasgow because Heathrow had freezing fog.
The airport in Glasgow, Scotland was in no way designed to handle a large number of big planes at once, and the 744 I was on wasn't the only one so diverted! It took over 4 hours from the time we touched down to the point where I cleared customs and another couple to get a British Midlands flight down to London.
All for some god damned freezy mist!
panader0
(25,816 posts)It started snowing heavily at half time. That was bad, but worse was that the Raiders won. After the game we went to the airport for our flight back to Az. but the plane was too iced up to take off. We sat in the bar for hours, we could see our plane through the windows, and the guys trying to de-ice the wings. I was quite inebriated by midnight when we finally got out of there.
RobinA
(9,893 posts)this once in Colorado Springs. I'm from the east and we don't really have this. It was kinda cool. It's foggy and gray out and it ices up the trees with this frost. It didn't get on the road, so it wasn't a hazard. Very eery and atmospheric, although I guess if you were used to it it was just gray and depressing. The mule deer liked it, because it kept them a bit hidden. It lasted for days.
olddots
(10,237 posts)White knuckles the whole way . No fun and very dangerous .
alfie
(522 posts)The mountain tops are frosted by low clouds a lot of mornings during the winter. Lower elevations get frosted when it is foggy and freezing. Everything is coated top and bottom and very pretty. The mountain tops look like they have a fuzzy snow cap.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)It's what creates the really thick hoar frost.
panader0
(25,816 posts)There was a freezing fog (about 20 years ago) that rolled into central/eastern Oregon and attached to the huge cross country
power lines. The kind that are up on those huge towers. He showed me photos--the ice had grown to two feet in diameter on each line. The weight collapsed the towers for miles, twisting the metal to pretzels. The IBEW workers came from all over (he was in NM) and worked 24/7 to rebuild the towers and restring the cable.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)depending on how thick and how cold it is, even seeing can be a real problem.