January 15, 2010 – Winter Wonderland
The overnight delivered the perfect conditions for sharp, needle-like frost, known as hoarfrost. The delicacy of this phenomena is in its fragility and inability or survive wind or sunshine – two common elements of winter.
The house looked like a Christmas card.
It added more barbs to a piece of barbed wire…
and added needles to this pump handle.
one year ago…”New Record Low at High Hopes Gardens”
4 Responses to “January 15, 2010 – Winter Wonderland”
George Handy says:
January 19, 2010 at 2:16 pm
And the scientific name for this is…
nana says:
January 19, 2010 at 7:20 pm
We have had the situation here in Rochester every morning since
Sat and it is so thick the higher you get on the hill as I drive
home. I don’t think I ever saw it so thick. WCCO has a photo
of a spider web that was full of frost and it was beautiful.Mom
linda says:
January 20, 2010 at 9:40 am
love the house picture
highhopesgardens says:
January 21, 2010 at 7:52 am
The name for this frost is hoar frost or radiation frost! I looked it up to be sure. Linda B.
I liked it too! Martin R.