Frost On Roof Above Freezing

We bought a sears kenmore frost free upright freezer model 26732 in jan 07.

Frost on roof above freezing.

All official temperatures are observed about 6 feet off the ground. If the morning sun directly hits your home and not your neighbors lack of frost may just be attributed to the sun s heat. When the temperature of the air goes below the dew point the air is supersaturated with water vapour and some of it condenses out into dew liquid or if it is cold enough into frost solid. The plot below shows a 24 hour trace of the temperature measured at 0 5 meters above the ground in blue at 2 meters above the ground in red and at 3 meters above.

If the dew point is below freezing the water vapor condenses as ice freezing as frost. Accordingly most forecast models around the world make predictions for temperatures 2 meters off the ground not directly on the surface. The kentucky mesonet recently added some extra temperature sensors at varying heights that show just why this could occur. Before getting concerned you need to make sure the lack of frost is due to the roof itself and not from outside forces.

A2 the ground or any surface must be at or below 32 for frost to form. How can the temperature stay above freezing but areas of frost still occur. It forms frost on the inside top of the door and also where the door touches the freezer when closed. Since official weather measurements are taken in an instrument shelter four to five feet above the ground frost can form even when the official temperature is above freezing.

You also see frost on the rooftops of houses on nights when the temperature never goes below freezing. So the air can be above freezing and the surface of your car or the roof of your house can be colder than the air and colder than freezing causing a frost even though the air temperature is above freezing. Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface which forms from water vapor in an above freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing and resulting in a phase change from water vapor to ice as the water vapor reaches the freezing point. If you were measuring 35 degrees several feet up you might find the lawn temperature where the coldest air settled to be 31 or 32 degrees which is cold enough for frost to form.

In cold climates it occurs in a greater variety of forms. In temperate climates it most commonly appears on surfaces near the ground as fragile white crystals. Have you ever wondered why frost can form on nights when the temperatures only fall to 36 or 37 degrees. Every warm object loses energy by radiating electromagnetic energy e g infrared photons.

The propagation of crystal formation occurs by th. However if nothing is different about your home compared to your neighbors you may have a problem. It s in the unfinished basement under a stairwell that is unfinished. There is ample air movement around it.