What the hell is "freezing fog" ?!?!?!?!

There is a freezing fog advisory in effect until tomorrow or so.

FREEZING FOG ?????

The Hell ?!?!?!?!

Just when I thought the weather couldn't get any more bizarre, then comes this!

By the way . . . bought a chainsaw. Using it tomorrow. Gonna be fun . . . or something.

Wonder if the chainsaw will cut thru freezing fog?

:santa:

I picked a hell of a time to move.

 

Thats a new one.

Chainsaws are great. Cut up everything in your sight, you will enjoy it.

 

Naa... you might put an eye out with it.

 

WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
ICE FOG AND FREEZING FOG?


METEOROLOGIST JEFF HABY

Cloud droplets and liquid precipitation can remain liquid even when the air temperature surrounding the suspended or falling liquid is below freezing. This occurs because the liquid needs a surface to freeze upon. The liquid droplets will freeze without a nuclei surface if the temperature drops low enough. As a general rule, liquid cloud or precipitation drops between freezing and -10 C (14 F) will remain liquid. When the temperature drops to below -40 C, all liquid droplets will solidify. Droplets that are liquid and are below freezing are referred to as supercooled droplets.

Suppose it is foggy outside and the temperature is 30 F. Fog tends to not produce measurable precipitation by itself but it can still wet and moisten objects. In the case of freezing fog, the fog cloud droplets are supercooled. When a droplet contacts an object below freezing it will turn to ice. When only freezing fog occurs, there will be just about as much freezing of the fog droplets onto surfaces as there will be sublimation from the surface, thus there is not much accumulation of ice. Often freezing fog will be accompanied with freezing drizzle. In that case, a film of ice will coat surfaces.

Ice fog is a fog composed of tiny ice crystals. In the ice fog situation the temperature is becoming too cold for only supercooled water to occur. Ice fog will only be witnessed in cold Arctic / Polar air. Generally the temperature will be 14 F or colder in order for ice fog to occur.

 

Nasty stuff that is not to be driven on. Everything will have a very thin coat of ice on it. Not enough to notice until it is too late. This is when "black ice" is the worst. Because there is not snow/sleet/freezing rain you can be lulled into a false sense of security but beware if it can get wet it will be frozen. We don't see it very much down here but it is bad when it shows up. The good thing is that it won't cause more limbs to fall.

 

Freezing fog huh? That's a new one on me. Whatever it is, good luck with it.


Oh yeah, don't remove any body parts. That would be bad.


So much worse than freezing fog.

 

Yall have never been to the Texas Panhandle have yall. . . If you ever get a spare moment look into the weather we have here in the Panhandle, A thunder ice storm just a few days ago. .and some freezing fog. .

 

We don't get it very often and when they announced it tonight on the news my wife who has lived here all her life too asked WTH it was?

I can only remember about 3-4 times my entire life that I've every experienced it, that I know of.


Thats every storm we have is thunder/ "whatever"

Thunder/snow storm
Thunder/Ice Strom
Thunder/Hail storm
Thunder/rain storm
Thunder/lightening/Snow storm
Thunder/lightening/Ice Storm
Thunder/lightening/hail storm
Thunder/lightening/rain storm

Rarely can just say "thunder storm" here, you have to specify which one.
If you just say thunder storm then nothing is expected besides hearing thunder.

 

Missouri weather is the best!!!
jrbhc8

 

Sorry you're getting hit with the brunt of the weather Kobi. Nasty weather is one of the main reasons lots of people from California pack up and move back once they've lived here through one winter. It can be a bit hard to take if you've never been through it before. I hope things get better for you.

 

Heres a short description of panhandle weather from just a weekend or two ago. . .

70* on Saturday at around 3pm, 19* and a freezing drizzle/fog/ice mix at 7am sunday.

 

Leave after one winter?

HA! Wimps!!!!!

Hell, it's supposed to snow on Friday. Looking forward to it!!! (Granted, I wasn't enjoying the ice, and I still have a ton of work ahead of me to clean up my yard, but SNOW . . . well, you know I've been waiting for that).

Bring it on!

:santa:

 

Yea, one winter, sometimes 2 or 3, occasionally they stick it out for good. The harder the winter the more we lose come spring.

Enjoy your snow!

 

We are 'sposed to get 8-10 inches here tomorrow... and 'nother 2 inches the next day.

Time to play with the tractor and plow again...

 

When freezing fog conditions are present you should be aware of another weather phenomenom, solid flatulence.

It will catch you completely by surprise and rip the seat out of a perfectly good pair of trousers.