© Ho Yin Lee

Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong, China

Latitude: 22° 24' 32'' N

Longitude: 114° 8' 17'' E

16 December 2010 1051 (Local Time)

Image P/S code: P.11.1.1.2

Image I.D.: 4711

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  Freezing hill fog depositing rime

  Freezing fog occurs at a temperature below 0 °C when supercooled fog droplets freeze on impact with the ground or other objects to deposit rime. 

  This picture was taken at the weather station on Tai Mo Shan, the highest peak in Hong Kong (China), during a severe winter monsoon and shows the summit shrouded in hill fog as a result of low cloud covering the high ground. With the air temperature having cooled to around -2 °C, the cloud droplets were in a supercooled state and, driven by a strong wind, they froze on impact with vegetation on the ground and with other objects to produce deposits of rime at 2 and 3. 

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  © Ho Yin Lee
  Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong, China
  Latitude: 22° 24' 32'' N
  Longitude: 114° 8' 17'' E
  16 December 2010 1051 (Local Time)
  
  
  Image P/S code: P.11.1.1.2
  Image I.D.: 4711
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  A severe winter monsoon affected southern China between 15 and 18 December 2010. On 16 December, the weather in Hong Kong was cold with some rain. Winds were fresh to strong northerlies, occasionally reaching gale force on high ground. 

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