Ground frost

Ground frost in the highest town in Venezuela, Apartaderos (Mérida state). Because its location in an alpine tundra ecosystem called páramo, they often undergo a sudden and drastic change in a daily freeze-and-thaw cycle, sometimes described as "summer every day and winter every night."

Ground frost refers to the various coverings of ice produced by the direct deposition of water vapor on objects and trees, whose surfaces have a temperature below the freezing point of water (0 °C, 32 °F).[1]

  1. ^ International Meteorological Vocabulary. Geneva: Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization. 1992.