Have you ever seen ice like this?

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[–]StillLessons 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Crystallization in needle form. Interesting. No, I've never seen this before. Do you know where this video was shot or anything about the conditions of the water which froze in this way?

[–]Canbot[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The water was wet and cold. Apparently this is a normal thing on lake superior, I believe at the end of winter. So I assume when the water temperature is just above freezing and clearly in this case the air temperature is significantly below freezing.

[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Very cool. Thanks!

[–]Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That's a rare form of ice called Ice 9.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's what came to my mind too.

[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When I was young, it flooded in Southern Illinois. Then it snowed and froze for several days. Then the flood began to slowly recede. I broke through the inch thick top layer of ice and explored crawling around under the ice. I could get far enough out to kneel, but not stand, before it got too muddy from the recently receded flood water.

Under the inch or slightly more thick solid ice top layer, the ice was connected to the ground by a length of 2, 3, or even 4 feet of weird ice crystals. It wasn't needls like this video, but the strangest and most delicate snow-like fairy-dust of ice suspended in the air. A swoop of your can would pulverize it with no resistance and the remnants left on the ground were a tiny fraction of dust that you'd expect from such a volume falling to the ground. It was so delicate, you could blow a breath of air and knock out a cubed foot of this suspended ice crystals.

Definitely a unique experience and better than the experience of covering 70% of my body with poison-(ivy, sumac, oak, something) from swinging on tree vines. Cutting those large fuzzy vines away from a tree to swing on was a bad idea.