freezing fog
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S: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/stories/what-is-freezing-fog (last access: 15 July 2015); http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-freezing-fog.htm (last access: 15 July 2015).

N: 1. A fog formed of supercooled water droplets which freeze on contact with objects, covering them with a coating of rime.
2. freezing fog; FZFG: term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

S: 1. METEOTERM/International Meteorological Vocabulary, WMO – No. 182 (last access: 15 July 2015). 2. TERMIUMPLUS.

SYN: 1. rime fog. fog depositing rime, sub-cooled fog.

S: 1. METEOTERM/International Meteorological Vocabulary, WMO – No. 182 (last access: 15 July 2015); TERMIUMPLUS. 2. TERMIUMPLUS.

CR: fog, frost, glaze, hail, hailstone, hoar frost, rime, sleet, small hail.