Rare 'hair ice' spotted in Scotland
At first glance, you might think that Santa's lost his beard somewhere on the forest floor.
This white, hair-like phenomenon is actually hundreds of delicate strands of ice - and is quite unusual. Also known as ice wool, frost flowers or frost beard, hair ice is a type of frost that only forms under extremely specific conditions.The hair-like ice crystals are formed on humid winter nights when the temperature is just below zero. However, weather conditions are only part of the recipe for hair ice to form - it also needs the help of a particular fungus found in moist, rotting wood.
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