\ˈpä-gə-ˌnip\
a dense winter fog containing frozen particles that is formed in deep mountain valleys of the western United States
I learned a new word today . . . and this is what we’ve been having here in Central Oregon the past few days.
And it is beautiful!!!
Maralee
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Utterly lovely. It’s been t-shirt weather here. Can’t complain except it’s weird and bizarre.
Thank you. The bizarre thing about these weather events is that down here in the high desert its 25 degrees and have this beautiful “pogonip” and 20 miles up the mountain they have blue skies and 50 degree weather.
Definitely beautiful Maralee! I like the pictures, especially the last one “frozen energy”
Thank you. The bizarre thing about these weather events is that down here in the high desert its 25 degrees and have this beautiful “pogonip” and 20 miles up the mountain they have blue skies and 50 degree weather.
Oops. I accidentally repeated my response to the last post. I liked how the ice crystals formed on the wires. If only I could have had a hawk perched on one of the wires. Am I asking for too much???
jajaja, well, it would be an abuse but is ok; sometimes, less is more!
Pretty spiked ice crystals! Love 🙂
Thank you very much.
Learned a new word . . . actually, a new meaning for a word; I thought pogonip was accidentally jamming . . . eh . . . something tender during the use of a pogo stick.
Instead, it’s ice crystals . . . go figure.
I can see where that would come from . . . Ouch!!
Fantastics shots!
Thank you, Cee.
I love the photos… what a fascinating formation… I think one should have that word printed on a tee shirt… it could cause some funny stares in this country…
I’m sure it would get some interesting comments.
Cool.
I thought it was called rime. I wonder what the difference is or if the 2 words are synonymous.
I think they’re pretty much synonymous. We used to call it hoar frost. Pogonip is a Shoshone word (according to the dictionary) so I imagine its called different things in different parts of the country.
Beautiful and interesting, Maralee! Wikipedia told me, that there often is a phrase to be found in Decembers Farmer’s Almanac that tells “Beware the Poonip!” The farmers seemed to believe, the the ice crystals might be able to destroy the lungs. Spooky! If Stephen King reads this, the POGONIP will become reality in other form in one of his books, I believe… 🙂
I think its called different things in different parts of the country. When I grew up in Minnesota we called it hoar frost. Another blogger calls it rime where they’re from. But I think it’s all basically the same. I don’t know about destroying the lungs though . . . although I’m sure Stephen King could make something out of it.
I love pogonip. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen any of it this year. Lovely photographs. Especially like the converging lines in the first one.
This has been a very unusual winter for us this year. We have no snow, it’s been in the 50’s most of the time, and I really worry about fire season this summer. The forecast is for moisture this week so we can only hope they’re correct. I think for us its supposed to be rain, but maybe snow in the mountains.
Yes, you and I pretty much follow the same weather pattern it appears. Around here we all keep commenting on the “gorgeous” weather, but nowadays those comments are always followed by, “But we really need some snow. This is terrible.”
Beautiful photos, and thanks for adding to my vocab! ~SueBee
Thanks so much. Its always fun to learn new words. 🙂
Wow! Amazing shots. I learned a new word too. 🙂
Thanks, Inga.