frost smoke

American  

noun

Meteorology.

1. an ice fog caused by extremely cold air flowing over a body of comparatively warm water, especially in polar regions.

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Etymology

Origin of frost smoke

First recorded in 1740–50

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frost smoke

Sometimes open leads of water in all directions were wreathed with wisps of frost smoke as the water began to freeze, and Shackleton commented that the effect resembled the smoke from a prairie fire.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Or the heavy night air, lying thick with frost smoke like a pall over earth, would reverberate to the deep bayings of the wolf-pack, and over all would close the white silence!

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Then the frost smoke rose like mist, and the white glare shone as a sea.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Inquire the season of the year; and he knows by the slant sunlight coming up through the frost smoke of the southern horizon.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

A moderate breeze was blowing from the eastward, and nothing was visible above the haze and frost smoke except the tops of two islands named White and Black Islands, and the hills around Hut Point.

From South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron