Posted on 11/07/2016 2:50:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
Residents of a Siberian town documented their encounter with a rare phenomenon -- hundreds of naturally formed snowballs covering a beach.
The snowballs, ranging from about the size of a tennis ball to nearly 3 feet across, were created by wind and water rolling tiny pieces of ice into balls in the Gulf of Ob, in the Arctic Circle village of Nyda.
Residents said they have never seen anything like the snowballs in the gulf.
"As a rule, first there is a primary natural phenomenon -- sludge ice, slob ice. Then comes a combination of the effects of the wind, the lay of the coastline, and the temperature and wind conditions," said Sergei Lisenkov, press secretary of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. "It can be such an original combination that it results in the formation of balls like these."
A similar sighting was caught on camera in December of 2015 in Maine's Sebago Lake.
Aren’t they cute!
Dippin’ Dots!.................
That or it's aliens.
I'm going with the aliens as the simpler, more believable explanation.
Lemmings coming home.
Ah, so Siberia is where old, hairless Tribbles go to die?
none of this will affect global warming\climate change statistics.
Siberian weather station monitoring has been shut down for awhile.
Imagine - Siberia accounts for 77% of Russia’s land area and 27% of Russia’s population(Russia spans 11 time zones), but counts for nothing when it comes to weather monitoring.
That takes some real balls uhhh snowballs to post pics like that. ;-)
I thought everybody knew that ...
A cool 80 degrees here in Tucson today. Sorry ‘bout that Ruskies.
If there was ever proof available that Putin has hacked Clinton’s e-mails, this is it.
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Average daily temp in that neck of the woods is around -20 this time of year. The cute snowballs aren’t worth it.
slob ice
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Never heard of that one. I wonder if it’s supposed to be “slab ice”.
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