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Hair ice (frost flower) on deadwood

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Location: Hattingen, Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Wharariki

January 12, 2022

I have never before discovered this ice phenomenon in person. Here by the wayside were some small pieces of dead wood with white fur.
The hair ice consists of up to 10 cm long ice needles that grow out of the rotten wood when the temperatures are around 0 ° Celsius and the humidity is very high. The fungi present in the wood press the water contained in the wood to the surface through gas formation, which freezes there and grows into such structures. This can only happen when the surrounding air can no longer absorb water, i.e. when the air is saturated with high humidity.

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Elevation 280 m

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