Lake Manitoba in Canada is covered with thousands of scoops of ice. They appeared on the surface of the reservoir due to a rare natural phenomenon. This was reported by the Daily Mail.
Photos of the unusual phenomenon have been posted by local entrepreneur Peter Hofbauer. He took pictures about 150 miles from Winnipeg. “Have you ever seen a frozen lake like this?” “- wrote Hofbauer.
He noted that the ice blanket was about six inches thick and its surface was hard and rough for humans. The ice cream balls varied in size: some were comparable to golf balls, others to soccer balls.
Ice of this form forms in the rare event that ice crystals form in turbulent waters (for example, subject to strong winds) with temperatures slightly below the freezing point. They rise over time to the surface of the water and accumulate there.
“The water created these scoops of ice, and they just piled up near the shore, and they seemed to spill over the lake as far as I could see,” Hofbauer said.
According to glaciologist Jeff Kavanagh, the ice spheres are fragile enough and cannot last long on the surface of the lake. Shortly after the appearance, the scoops of ice did indeed turn to snow, Hofbauer said.
Earlier in the fall, French scientists explained and reproduced in the laboratory a natural phenomenon known as “Baikal Zen”. It also represents the unusual formation of ice on the surface of the lake.
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