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  • Magnification at four times life-size reveals the structure of ice crystals that formed on a fallen leaf on a frosty morning.
    Leaf_Ice-Crystals_Macro_Lynnwood_189...jpg
  • Magnification at four times life-size reveals the structure of ice crystals that formed on a fallen leaf on a frosty morning.
    Leaf_Ice-Crystals_Macro_Lynnwood_187...jpg
  • Magnification at four times life-size reveals the structure of ice crystals that formed on a fallen leaf on a frosty morning.
    Leaf_Ice-Crystals_Macro_Lynnwood_190...jpg
  • A 22° halo forms around the sun over Snohomish County, Washington. The 22° solar halo forms when the sun shines into thin, ice-filled cirrus clouds. The hexagonal ice crystals serve as tiny prisms to create the full-circle rainbow around the sun.
    SolarHalo_22Degree_1846.jpg
  • A hole-punch cloud is typically formed when an airplane passes through altocumulus clouds. Altocumulus clouds are made up of small, super cooled water droplets. When aircraft pass through these clouds, the rapid pressure changes they cause can cool the air further. That, in turn, causes the water droplets to form heavy ice crystals, which then drop from the sky, leaving behind a "hole punch." This hole-punch cloud was observed in Thurston County, Washington. Hole-punch clouds are also sometimes called sky-punch clouds.
    Cloud_HolePunch_1831.jpg
  • Ground frost, otherwise known as hoar frost, sticks to the grass on a cold morning in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. Ground frost typically forms on cold, clear nights when the ground temperature drops below freezing. When water vapor in the warmer air touches the frozen ground, it freezes, forming ice in a process known as sublimation.
    GroundFrost_Grass_BryceNP_1240.jpg
  • A particularly heavy ground frost covers a rock in the Central Cascades of Washington state. Ground frost typically occurs on cold, clear nights when the ground temperature drops below freezing. When water vapor in the warmer air touches the frozen ground, it freezes, forming ice in a process known as sublimation.
    GroundFrost_IndexGalenaRd_2409.jpg
  • A solar pillar, also known as a sun pillar, forms before sunrise between two juniper trees on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Solar pillars are caused by flat ice crystals in the air, which essentially act as mirrors for the sun's light.
    GrandCanyon_Junipers_Solar-Pillar_86...jpg
  • A circumzenithal arc appears to stretch across the tops of trees on Cougar Mountain near Bellevue, Washington. Circumzenithal arcs appear as upside-down rainbows and are the brightest and most colorful of all the solar halos. They appear when the sun is relatively low on the horizon, less than 32 degrees above the horizon and ideally 20°, and cirrus clouds are overhead. Circumzenithal arcs are especially bright and vibrant because the ice crystals in the cirrus clouds are perfectly aligned, passing through almost parallel bands of light.
    Circumzenithal_Arc_3523.jpg
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