hard rime
(redirected from Rime (frost))hard rime
[′härd ¦rīm] (hydrology)
Opaque, granular masses of rime deposited chiefly on vertical surfaces by a dense super-cooled fog; it is more compact and amorphous than soft rime, and may build out into the wind as glazed cones or feathers.
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