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15 December 2009
Have You Ever Seen an Ice Ribbon?
Joe Vaughn has. I received an email over the past weekend with a picture and a question. What is this?? What you are looking at is an ice ribbon. They are also sometimes called a frost flower. It’s been about a decade since a viewer sent me a picture of one. I have only seen them myself once. So what are they? Are they natural? Are they really ice? The …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.