This past week, the high desert has had a few dustings of snow. With the solar gain, the snow melts away quickly. And-- while it is still quite dry-- there’s been enough moisture in the mornings to create a magical layer of hoarfrost on the vegetation, fences, and on this metal roadrunner in the backyard. Here’s a bit of information about the difference between frost and hoarfrost:
“As nouns the difference between hoarfrost and frost is that hoarfrost is dew-drops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed surface when the air is cold and moist, while frost is a cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.”
Source: WikiDiff (Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License)
