pogonip
Winter wonderland at Heavenly Mountain Resort
Submitted by paula on Sat, 01/31/2015 - 10:06pm
The word of the day: Pogonip.
That is what gave the top of South Lake Tahoe's Heavenly Mountain Resort the look of winter and fresh snow on Saturday morning.
According to the National Weather Service in Reno, a cloud deck around 8,000-9,000 feet was in place most of the night and the supercooled liquid droplets froze on the branches becoming a thick coating of frost.
Here is the definition of "pogonip" from Wikipedia:
