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Rime frost on a fir tree in Haywood County
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- Date created
- November 23, 2007
- Location
- Haywood County, North Carolina
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This is rime frost on a fir tree on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Haywood County, North Carolina. This kind of rime, called soft rime, forms when fog or mist freezes to the outer surface of objects. It takes the form of delicate needles on the windward side of objects.
