Rimed snow
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rimed-snow-180-9138377
title:
Rimed snow
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Rimed snow refers to snowflakes that are partially or completely coated in tiny frozen water droplets called 'rime'. Rime forms on a snowflake when it passes through a super-cooled cloud. Snowflakes that are heavily rimed typically produce very heavy and wet snow, with snow to liquid ratios in the 5-1 to 9-1 range. Rimed snow has been found to provide greater initial stability for a snow layer. However, it also allows thicker, and therefore less stable, snow layers to build up. It could be argue
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimed_snow
date created:
2008-10-23T22:15:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T17:01:39Z
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