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hard rime
(redirected from Rime frost)

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hard rime [′härd ¦rīm]
(hydrology)
Opaque, granular masses of rime deposited chiefly on vertical surfaces by a dense super-cooled fog; it is more compact and amorphous than soft rime, and may build out into the wind as glazed cones or feathers.
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Instead of the customary wet blanket which has drivers groping their way along motorways, exceptional cold has turned the clammy grey stuff into that rare wonder, rime frost.
In praise of... rime frost by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
A horse in Keresley huddles against a background more reminiscent of the Arctic tundra yesterday, and (below) friends Tina Price and Paul Cooke walk their dogs Rooney, Bobbic and BeeBee through the rime frost in Pinney Fields, Wyken, yesterday.
IT'S F-F-FREEZING! City shivers through coldest night for 17 years by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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