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air frost

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air frost
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) the deposition of ice condensed from water vapour in the atmosphere on the surface when the air temperature is below 0°C
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This, combined with an air frost with minus temperatures, blows the freezing air into voids and cracks where water pipes are located, causing them to partially or totally freeze.
Cold snap to continue by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Temperatures will dip significantly overnight and there will be an air frost first thing, which will clear fairly swiftly to make way for prolonged sunny spells.
Horse Racing: Good to soft going possible as ground dries; 2.40 ... by The Racing Post (London, England)
If an air frost coats them they look like mop heads made of spun sugar.
gardening life; A touch; of frost by Chudziak, Bill; Wheatcroft, Janet / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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