How can the weather be below freezing AND 100% humidity?

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Doesnt the temperature mean that fog can’t be “humidity”?

Isn’t humidity moisture and doesn’t moisture crystallize into a solid form below 32 degrees?

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Ever go out in the morning and there’s frost on everything? That’s because the relative humidity was 100% and the temperature below freezing. This isn’t uncommon, because relative humidity goes up as the temperature goes down. The cold air can’t hold as much moisture as warm air can.

Fog is just a ground level cloud, and clouds can be tiny ice crystals just as easily as they can be droplets of water.

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