This happened in February of this year on Lake Michigan.
“Weighing in at up to 50 pounds (22 kilograms) each, the ice spheres are a winter weather phenomenon resulting from wind and wave action along the shore, according to reporting by NASA‘s Earth Science Picture of the Day. Small fragments of floating ice act like seeds, with layers upon layers of supercooled lake water freezing around them as the balls churn in the waves. Wind then pushes the ice concretions onshore.”
I sometimes complain about the landlocked status of my home here in Alberta, then I see stuff like what is pictured below, or what happened in Manitoba and I think to myself, “hmm…not so bad here after all.”
Ice Wall in Manitoba
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May 16, 2013 at 11:02 pm
bleatmop
The ice balls and the ice wall are very cool natural phenomenon. This world is a pretty cool place and continues to impress me at what it can do. Just like the stupidity of people who build homes right beside a lake that floods massively every other year or so. I mean, nobody expects an ice wall, but I would think they would want to build a bit farther back to at least avoid the inevitable flood.
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