Beauty-winter brings not only severe cold but blizzards. Sunny frosty days often delight with sparkling snow, luge and openwork hoarfrost.
What is frost
Many people's hearts sank with admiration when one morning, looking out the window, we saw a fabulous picture - trees and wires covered with a snowy crystalline coating. This picture is painted with frost. What is this natural phenomenon? The meaning of the word "hoarfrost" in itself is suggestive of frost in its sound. And although he has several interpretations: it is snow groats, and a thin layer of ice covering the ground, and metal objects, and even a haze of fumes in damp cold weather - however, in our article we will talk about those bizarre snowflake-like ice crystals that grow on thin elongated objects such as branches of trees and shrubs, antennas, cables and much more. In our case, frost is, simply speaking, deposits of snow-like ice.
Educational process
How is the birth of frost crystals? This process is still not fully understood until now. Crystalline plaque is formed due totransition of water vapor and fog to a solid state. Micro-icicles grow on objects, on top of each other, drawing openwork and intricate landscapes. Hoarfrost is a mysterious phenomenon: the life of crystals is short, their size and shape are constantly changing. When the temperature approaches zero, some drastically decrease in size, while others add in growth! Within 10 minutes, one can sometimes observe complete recrystallization and, accordingly, a change in the pattern. At low temperatures, structural changes are almost imperceptible.
Necessary factors for occurrence
Frost is a formation that occurs mainly in frosty weather. More often at -15 degrees Celsius. But just a low temperature is not enough - another factor necessary for the occurrence of this natural phenomenon is fog or haze, that is, water vapor in the air must be contained in large quantities. A weak wind also contributes to the growth of a "fluffy coat" on the trees. All these changing conditions affect the beauty and pretentiousness of frost patterns. As the weather changes, more and more new patterns emerge. And if you are not a business executive who often suffers from a similar phenomenon (it leads to various types of accidents), but a poet (even if just in your soul), then the ornate and bizarre pictures outside the window that frost painted are exactly what will inspire you to new creations and bring a touch of beauty into everyday life.
