Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
I call that just "ice". Most ice that I see on roads isn't all frothy and white, it's clear and appears black on the road. If you're saying that there is some ice that is actually black when it's not sitting on a black surface, then that's new to me.
I don't think people will be happy until someone is going in front of them dying all the water fluorescent orange so that they can be alerted that there might be ice when it's cold.
Ice that freezes on a lake without any turbulence "appears" black. It's actually transparent and you are just looking down into the water. But because it is so smooth and has no gas bubbles in it, it's friction is very low. It's the best ice skating ice.
Around here they don't dye it orange but they go out and spray salt on it so that people can drive any speed they like...or think they can drive any speed they like. Many times, they just end up upside down in a ditch
