4 days ago · Ice fog forms from water vapor expelled into the air by people breathing, but mostly from water vapor ejected into the air from automobiles and smokestacks. Compared to warm air, cold air …

Feb 13, 2024 · Ice fog is a surface cloud composed of water we emit into the air all the time; it only becomes visible when the cold hammer comes down hard and hangs around for a bit.

Oct 17, 2025 · “An understanding of the interaction between ice-nucleation aerosols, droplets, ice crystals and turbulent frigid air is imperative in quantifying conditions for ice-fog formation,” Fernando …

Feb 12, 2026 · When thick, dense ice fog forms, the ice fog partly replaces the ground surface as the radiating source. The temperature inversion then moves up toward the top of the ice fog dome. …

Jan 8, 1997 · Besides water, ice fog contains carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and a slew of other chemicals wafted into the air by cars' inability to completely burn gasoline. During a cold snap, most …

Jan 23, 2025 · Beneath the headline “Ice fog clogs Fairbanksans,” reporter Sue Lewis wrote of a new daily low record of minus 55 being set in Fairbanks on the same day it was 25 degrees colder at …

Apr 2, 2021 · Ice fog blankets Fairbanks. Debbie Dean file photo, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Feb 12, 2026 · Below that temperature, the liquid droplets turn to ice--ice fog being a possible result. However, the normal ice fog known and loved in some northern cities comes from manmade …

Sep 4, 2024 · Ice fog over Fairbanks as seen from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Debby Dean photo

Jan 31, 2019 · That location, fuzzy with ice fog, was dark-side-of-the-moon cold during the last time Alaska had a genuine statewide cold snap — one that lasted 14 days. Late January 1989 featured a …