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Mother Nature’s artwork on full display in Prince George

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While residents in Prince George got a good night’s sleep, Mother Nature was hard at work on some incredible artwork consisting of soft rime frost.

Unlike regular rime frost, which is hard to the touch, soft rime frost consists of tiny, brittle spikes that will break easily if touched.

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Mother Nature can only do this artwork when temperatures are near or below freezing and there is fog and calm winds. That’s exactly what the Prince George region experienced at night this week.

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Here’s how it happens: Some water droplets in the fog become super-cooled, which means the temperature of the droplet drops below zero, but hasn’t actually frozen yet.

It needs a catalyst to freeze. An yobject that is cold enough can become that catalyst, so when the super-cooled water droplets hit a very cold object, they freeze on impact.

Over time, more and more super-cooled droplets freeze and incredible spikes are formed.

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