The unusual structures, known as hair ice and frost flowers, are the result of how wacky water can get when frozen in just the right way, and if you keep your eyes peeled we know just where you ...

However, hoar frost and rime ice have nothing on the wonderous tendrils of delicate "hair ice," which requires even more specific conditions. For hair ice to form, those conditions need to include ...

Hair ice can look like spun sugar - and melt just as easily! Hair ice, also given the fun name of ‘frost beard’, was discovered in 1918 by Alfred Wegener, who also discovered continental drift.

January has brought sightings of a unique phenomenon called ‘hair ice’ to parts of Western Washington. One of those places is Vashon Island. Maria Metler is the co-executive director and ...

What looks like a lost Santa beard or fallen cotton candy in the forest in the images below is actually an amazing natural phenomenon called Frost Beard or Hair Ice.