So today is my day off. I take every Thursday off. Susan, Eli and I usually spend it in Lafayette, getting out of town for a bit. This morning, however, I was awakened by the phone at 5:50am. 2 hour delay!! Ok, we can deal with that. An hour later we received another call….school is cancelled. So there goes our plans about heading out of town for the day.
So we’ve stayed home today….all 5 of us (6 with the dog). It hasn’t been too bad of a day. The boys have played on the Wii, the computer and even done some homework. They are now peacefully, for now, watching a DVD.
Susan and I decided to get something done. We have a 2 car garage at the house, but have only used one side of it. The other side has been a play area and general collection area for junk being removed from the house. With the freezing rain we received last night, we thought it would be nice to be able to park in the other half. So we set about trying to clean up that half of the garage. It also meant re-organizing our shed out back so we could move stuff out there too.
A couple of hours later, we have 2 vehicles parked in our garage. Of course, there currently isn’t a lot of room to maneuver around out there, but both vehicles are safe from the elements.
We had been talking about still going out this afternoon, but I feel good about we accomplished today. We have been talking about this project for some time now. And finally it is done!! It’s a good feeling. That feeling of accomplishment.
I PAID ATTENTION IN METEOROLOGY: AND KEPT THE NOTES FROM THE CLASS
FREEZING FOG AND ICE FOG
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.
Wow! Thank you, Betsy!