Freezing Fog: What the Hell is That?
Published by Toronto Mike on December 30, 2011 @ 17:26 in Toronto News ~ Toronto Focus
I'm about to head out to see American Idiot, so I checked the weather via my Ubuntu Linux desktop. Here's what I saw:
Freezing fog? What the hell is freezing fog?
According to the National Weather Service:
Freezing fog occurs when the water droplets that the fog is composed of are "supercooled". Supercooled water droplets remain in the liquid state until they come into contact with a surface upon which they can freeze. As a result, any object the freezing fog comes into contact with will become coated with ice. The same thing happens with freezing rain or drizzle.
That's some scary shit right there!
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December 30, 2011 / 17:49
This "scary fog" happens very frequently in Bolton. Actually happening here now. As said water droplets hit any surface & then freezes because the surface is very cold.
Scary shit, yes as I wound up in a ditch 2 years ago thinking just wet roads & was sheer ice.