Wayah Frost

My son, his wife and daughter were up here from Florida to share Thanksgiving with us.




We needed some fixings for lunch, so I ran down to Ingles. My son and granddaughter went with me. On the way we noticed that Wayah was frosted like a cake with icing on top. They wanted to go up there after lunch, but I knew it would all be gone in 30 minutes. So we ran up there quickly to see the big show.

The only camera we had with us was my little video camera and these pictures were made with it's one mp resolution still-photo capabliity.


There was some snow on the ground, but the big show was the "frosting" on top of the Wayah Bald "cake". It appeared to be a frost formed as cold and moist air encountered an accommodating object, such as tree limbs.


Meteorologists refer to this formation as "wind frost", and it occurs as cold, moist air flows over already frozen objects. The frost formation shows the direction of the wind at the time it was formed since the "tail" grows outward into the wind.