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Hopefully later tonight I will be able to post some really wierd pictures we took today. After some research on the web this is what I found
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5510022.ece
We were snowshoeing down in Jacksonville, VT on my boyfriends property along a brook. We stopped to ponder about 16 perfectly round circles of ice of identical size floating in one of the few areas of the brook that had not been covered by snowbridges. It was a first for me and I look forward to getting the pictures up once he gets them uploaded from his camera. Vermont, Scandanavia, whatever....
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=30899&c=514
Gray Blazer
01-26-2009, 08:51
So how cold is it there?
Here are a few we found:
http://usera.ImageCave.com/hoz/hozpics/icepancakes02.jpg
http://usera.ImageCave.com/hoz/hozpics/icepancakes03.jpg
http://usera.ImageCave.com/hoz/hozpics/icepancakes04.jpg
Gray Blazer
01-26-2009, 09:07
Looks like you need a litttle ice butter and some ice syrup. Does Aunt Jemimah know about this?
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=30899&c=514
Are there lily pads in that spot? Looks like there might be pond lily stuff on the lower right quarter. If you have that pic in your computer, maybe you can zero in on it and zoom in. Same on the right.
Very cool pic. Same with the canoe pics.
Ice Pancakes are not all that unusual or "strange phenomenon" as most people think. They happen when conditions are right. Cold and or wind/current.
http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-pancake.htm
TrippinBTM
01-26-2009, 10:14
Nice. They're not perfectly circular, so I guess that rules out the aliens :rolleyes:
Maybe they form in eddys in the current, which would help make them round. Nature is a wild, amazing place, no need to invoke the ridiculous for explanations.
Thanks for the link. And the pictures. I've never seen them. Currents and eddy action make more sense than ice floating off lily pads.
If you can find some of this: http://www.jamesonwhiskey.com/
You'll be all set! :D (Just keep your center of gravity low :p).
So how cold is it there?
When I left this morning around 7:30 it was -6, has warmed up to 14 at noon.
4eyedbuzzard
01-26-2009, 14:17
Nice. They're not perfectly circular, so I guess that rules out the aliens
They make them that way so as to catch you unaware...:eek:
Maybe they form in eddys in the current, which would help make them round. Nature is a wild, amazing place, no need to invoke the ridiculous for explanations.
Or maybe they break off from larger pieces in various shapes and just get rounder as they go from melting and abrasion.:-?:confused:
Blissful
01-26-2009, 14:26
That's pretty wild. :)
Or maybe they break off from larger pieces in various shapes and just get rounder as they go from melting and abrasion.:-?:confused:
If you look at the picture it is just wild how the ones floating are all so symetrical and all identical in size. I really wish I had video footage because they all were spinning independantly, It was more surreal to watch than the photo actually captured
Nice. They're not perfectly circular, so I guess that rules out the aliens :rolleyes:
Maybe they form in eddys in the current, which would help make them round. Nature is a wild, amazing place, no need to invoke the ridiculous for explanations.
Eddy's in the current!? Someone help him out, it's cold!
WritinginCT
01-26-2009, 15:07
If you can find some of this: http://www.jamesonwhiskey.com/
You'll be all set! :D (Just keep your center of gravity low :p).
Person after my own heart :sun lol...
Those ice formations are cool! I've seen them a couple of times here and there and they always take me by surprise.
neighbor dave
01-26-2009, 15:52
:-?are the bejing acrobats in town????;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRkZN27Hp_k
beakerman
01-26-2009, 16:28
spinning things do tend toward round shapes--natural or otherwise--so no need for aliens there. If yo ulok at the OP's photos youcan see off to the right hand side of the "pool" there are several more that got captured and froze in place.
They are still freaky though nice photos of them too. I used to see them all the time when I was a kid--it was colder then than now thanks to global warming i guess.
TrippinBTM
01-27-2009, 11:37
Eddy's in the current!? Someone help him out, it's cold!
no man, don't worry about him, he's busy making ice circles :D