Pogonip Redoux

The other morning brought more spectacular frozen fog.  

A product of overnight fog and freezing temperatures this rime ice is sometimes referred-to as radiation fog, valley fog or freezing fog.  It is also called pogonip – a Shoshone word for cloud.    

Ordinarily, fog materializes when there is cooler air coming in contact-with a warmer body of water or moist surface like a swamp or wetland. 

Freezing fog materializes when the air temperature is below freezing and the water droplets in the fog become super-cooled. These super-cooled water droplets stay in liquid state until they drift into contact with a surface they can freeze-to. Grass, twigs, trees, leaves and so-forth. 

From our walk we were quick to capture some images before the sun broke thru and burn it all away.....

Fallout

Donald Trump has not ordered the flags on federal buildings to fly at half-staff in honor of Brian Sicknick, the Capitol police officer who was murdered by Trump loyalists rioting at the capitol last Wednesday.  And - for the record - Trump hasn't called the family either.

Mike Pence and most members of both parties in Congress have had the graciousness to speak with his surviving family.

Why is it so difficult for the president to do the right thing?

 

My Kingdom for a Leader

There is this from June 16, 2015...

 

And there is the December Jobs Report...

As it turns-out, 2020 is the worse year for job losses since 1939.  Blacks, Hispanics, teenagers and high-school dropouts were the hardest hit - mostly in the leisure and hospitality industry.  The Trump recession has shed 9.37 million jobs - almost double the 5.05 million jobs lost in 2009 in the wreckage of the global financial crisis. 

Unless things magically improve this month - Donald Trump will be remembered as the only President since these stats have been measured to leave office having lost more jobs than existed when he was sworn-in.

The Greatest Commandment

And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

— Mark 12:28-31

 

No Remorse

Capitol Police Officer, Brian D. Sicknick, died Thursday night from injuries after Trump supporters beat him with a fire extinguisher. He was the fourth member of the force to be killed in the line of duty since its founding two centuries ago. 

Donald Trump has more blood on his hands. 

I'll not hold my breath waiting for the apology.....

 

Friday Music

Originally recorded by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in 1998 this version was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded on Rounder Records in a 2007 collaboration by Plant and Alison Krauss for the album Raising Sand. 

Critically-acclaimed it won Record of the Year at the 2009 Grammy Awards. 

Please Read the Letter….

 

Return of the Pogonip

Following a random, unplanned day of sunshine on Tuesday, yesterday we woke to this.

Trees and grass ‘painted’ as if by Jack Frost himself.  

A product of overnight fog and freezing temperatures this rime ice is sometimes referred-to as radiation fog, valley fog or freezing fog.  It is also called pogonip – a Shoshone word for cloud.    

Ordinarily, fog materializes when there is cooler air coming in contact-with a warmer body of water or moist surface like a swamp or wetland. 

Freezing fog materializes when the air temperature is below freezing and the water droplets in the fog become super-cooled. These super-cooled water droplets stay in liquid state until they drift into contact with a surface they can freeze-to. Grass, twigs, trees, leaves and so-forth. 

 

 

It’s really a rather striking effect and pleasing to the eye. It is also something to be reckoned-with as it can result in ice build-up on roads – especially bridges – which have no ground insulation. It can also build-up on power lines with the result pf power outages. 

Drive carefully on mornings like this.

There will most surely be ice on the roads too.....