Persistent fog leads to pesky—yet beautiful—rime ice on the Prairies
It's pretty to look at, but rime ice comes with its share of problems.
Rime ice - a phenomenon that occurs when supercooled water droplets found in freezing fog come into contact with an object that is below freezing - is weighing down power lines on parts of the Prairies.
The conditions are courtesy of persistent fog. On Wednesday morning, fog advisories were in place for parts of Saskatchewan.
SaskPower reported several pockets of outages Wednesday but did not explicitly state the cause.
This wouldn't be the first time rime ice has caused problems in the area.
Multiple days of fog and freezing fog on the central Prairies in early December 2018 resulted in more than 30,000 calls from Saskatchewan residents, reporting power outages.
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