Aircraft flying into weather that is producing snow showers will often report rime ice accretion. Normally the most significant accretion isn’t from the clouds producing the snow, but those ...

After all is said and done, I guess the thing to pay attention to is air movement. If there is none, you are looking at hoarfrost and not rime ice. Whatever you want to call it, as a gardener ...

As temperatures rise in the early days of spring, visitors can enjoy the spectacular scenery of delicate rime formations ...

The rime ice formations stretch out in the direction the wind was blowing from. Once water vapor hits the trees, it becomes supercooled and crystallizes. Some call them shrimp tails because their ...

For rime ice to form, the object AND the air around it has to be below freezing - and liquid water droplets are present. The water droplets freeze on impact with the object, creating their ...

The National Weather Service describes rime frost as a deposit of interlocking ice crystals formed by direct sublimation on objects. Its usually those of small diameter freely exposed to the air ...

Rime, a unique type of frost resembling granular tufts of ice, forms under specific conditions of temperature and humidity. For example, when warm water vapor from a river meets the cold air above ...