Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Linear Frost


     Several times a day, I walk around my pond.  I am supposed to be walking Kona, but more often than not, Kona picks up a whiff of some animal and goes off smelling her way into the bush on her own.

    One of the most interesting parts of my pond walk is when I walk across the planks over the pond’s outflow.   For a good portion of this winter, our weather has been very mild;  just below freezing at night, but slightly above freezing during the day.  As a result, there has been no ice on the gently flowing stream of the outflow.  The leaves of the aquatic plants growing there, just on the water’s surface have stayed surprisingly green.

    A few days ago the weather did get colder, -12°C (10°F) overnight.  The surface water of the outflow did freeze, then it began being covered with linear segments of frost, which which I found quite unusual.  The photo above shows what it looked like.  


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