{"id":668,"date":"2005-02-06T15:53:50","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T18:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=668"},"modified":"2005-02-06T15:53:50","modified_gmt":"2005-02-06T18:53:50","slug":"freezing-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Freezing fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>lan (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genx40.com\">proprietor of GenX40<\/a>) has some pretty pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genx40.com\/archives\/2005\/february\/freezingfog#replies\">freezing fog (or freezing mist)<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fog#freezingfog\">Wikipedia link goes here<\/a>).  Rather <a href=\"http:\/\/oap2.weather.com\/glossary\/f.html#fzfg\">here<\/a> is a short description.\n<\/p>\n<p>Freezing fog reminds me the other natural event, <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu\/(Gh)\/guides\/mtr\/cld\/prcp\/zr\/frz.rxml\">&#8216;freezing rain&#8217;<\/a>. I&#8217;m mentioning these two altogether, because before I moved to Nova Scotia, I was not familiar with freezing rain. Sure, in Holland we have snow (and I remember <em>lots of snow<\/em> too). We do have hail, ranging from big hail storms to the local brief hail showers. But the first time I ever heard and saw freezing rain, imagine how confused and excited I was. It rains, it freezes upon impact and it&#8217;s definitely not <em>hail<\/em>. In the last couple of years I&#8217;ve heard of the problems freezing rain causes, particularly last year in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atl.ec.gc.ca\/weather\/severe\/nb02-03_e.html\">New Brunswick<\/a>. It&#8217;s a weid phenomen for me, something I can easily explain with plain physics but not in plain Dutch. &#8216;Vriezende regen&#8217;? &#8216;Regenvries&#8217;?\n<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I guess that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s called &#8216;freezing rain&#8217; in English. I already envy Alan for having Mother Nature treating him with &#8216;freezing fog&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan (proprietor of GenX40) has some pretty pictures of freezing fog (or freezing mist) (Wikipedia link goes here). Rather here is a short description. Freezing fog reminds me the other natural event, &#8216;freezing rain&#8217;. I&#8217;m mentioning these two altogether, because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=668\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}