Jilin's Sifang Mountain presents winter rime spectacle
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Jilin's Sifang Mountain presents winter rime spectacle
Delicate filigrees of rime cover trees on Sifang Mountain in Tonghua city, Northeast China's Jilin province on Nov 30 - creating a startling contrast between the pristine white of the leaves and the piercing blue sky. In autumn and winter, mist condenses in the form of frost which engulfs the surrounding branches when it's hyper cold, creating the natural phenomenon. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
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With the golden sun rising from the horizon, the mountain becomes a fairy tale world wrapped in silver. Here, alpine grasslands and wetlands form a snowy and foggy microclimate in winter, where the probability of icy rime is particularly high. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
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This enchanting view shows trees blanketed in crystal clear rime on Sifang Mountain. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
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Delicate rime ice on trees creates a spectacular sight on Sifang Mountain. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
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Delicate rime covers trees with filigrees of frost to create haunting natural scenery. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
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For those who didn't know, "rlme" is a layer of icy frost. The most beatiful thing about winter as I remember from Canada is when a freezing rain coats the bare branches of the trees in winter and freezes to ice so it causes the whole scene to be like a sparkling crystal paradise on a cold sunny day..
Evening... Mother Nature's hand is truly spectacular at times...
Yep, seems to happen every year around this time.
I'm not certain whether this is rime ice or hoar frost, but I got a few pix back in Feb 2019 that were kind of pretty. We were both sick as dogs that day with bad colds, but we just had to get some photos. It was only in a specific area and wouldn't last too long.
They are basically the same thing really , but what i was told growing up in rural new england was that rime formed near open bodies of water , such as rivers and streams that were slow flowing , and that hoar frost was when the humidity in the air condensed and froze quickly over night and happened everywhere where as rime was consentrated near the water .
the other thing i use to see a lot was frozen fog, literally a fog bank of frozen ice crystals suspended in the air , back there its called the "pogonip" supposedly a native american term .
legend says beware the pogonip for if you breath it you shall surely die .
Never heard of pogonip before. But back where I was born and grew up, Hamilton,Ontario, we were in the Bufflalo snow belt (now called "lake snow effect?") and we always had a lot of snow shovelling to do.