This picture wasn’t taken by me, I just thought it was incredibly cool! A friend forwarded it to me along with the accompanying text explanation.
“We had a mixed-precip event last night as the temperatures started rising above freezing and the snow changed over. The ramp was a sheet of slick wet ice, and even with crushed stone (urea) spread, it was glazing over as quickly as we could deploy it. As flight 1830 was coming into the stand, I motioned to the deck for them to proceed very cautiously, which apparently they’d been doing for the whole taxi (it took a long time between calling on-deck and getting to the gate).
When it finally pulled in, we noticed what is in the attached picture. None of us had ever seen it before. Very cool. I ran and grabbed my camera. I apologize for the quality, since it was melting off quickly as the fan had stopped spinning I just pulled out the camera and took two quick snaps. I guess I didn’t have a steady hand in the rain!”
(via The Usual Suspects)