Frozen Forest
January 08, 2020
Photographer: Patric Benedetti
Summary Authors: Patric Benedetti; Jim Foster
Featured above is frozen forest observed the morning following a foggy night on Mount Loffa (3,445 ft or 1.050 m) in northern Italy. When the temperature dropped below freezing (32 F or 0 C), the fog droplets froze, forming a thick layer of rime ice upon everything exposed to the sky. Even at sub-freezing temperatures, fog droplets remain liquid until they alight on something solid to nucleate around; in wooded areas twigs and pine needles are typically targeted. See detail at upper left. Photo taken in January 2018.
Photo Details: Camera: HUAWEI ALE-L21; Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows; Exposure Time: 0.0006s (1/1611); Aperture: ƒ/2.0; ISO equivalent: 100; Focal Length (35mm): 27.