I nominate "Winter's Whiskers".

We have similar stuff growing out of geothermal ground where I worked on Mt Erebus, and we called it "angel's pubes".

sigh as a non US citizen could we please have less mentions of US politics and US political figures on HN? I don't know about others but the extreme US centric nature of HN is wearing me down. When I go on Reddit I go to /r/worldnews specifically to get away from US only news content but even then every second article concerns the Trump administration and its foreign policy.

How in all that is holy can you connect a bio-meteorological phenomenon to the Donald? When people say we are living in dark times I have to concur, public discourse is being destroyed with partisan and identity politics.

Also, not a supporter, but I think his rhetorical flourishes are quite arresting and quirky at times.

Canadian aftershave is probably the better name for the facial hair variant.

Even in a thread about ice forming on trees, someone manages to bring up Trump. Amazing.