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.
The snowball that ate Milwaukee.
That’s so amazing. :)
{{Where’s the homeowners insurance policy, dear?}}
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