Time for a Rime Lapse
2015-04-26 18:19:07.000 – Kaitlyn O’Brien, Co-director of Summit Operations
Rime ice occurs when we have temperatures below freezing and foggy conditions. Supercooled water droplets suspended in the fog freeze instantaneously and form long feathery strands of rime that, perhaps counterintuitively, grow into the wind.
Kaitlyn O’Brien, Co-director of Summit Operations
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