While our species’ explorative focus might’ve turned to space and the ocean, there are still some extremely impressive phenomena happening right where we live. We’ve seen snow and ice do some fairly cool (or terrifying) things, like this time-lapse video of a 2010 blizzard that hit New Jersey shows. A quick search on Google or YouTube, and you can find countless videos of people living in extremely cold climates tossing buckets of hot water into the air, only to have the water instantly turn to snow. Now, a video that is making the rounds shows what can be described as ice needles pouring out of a lake, each new needle clinking onto a pile of needles that came before it.
The video, taken at Medicine Lake in Plymouth, Minnesota, captures many long, thin fragments of ice pouring out from chunks of ice on the shore. There are so many little ice needles that it resembles something like Play-Doh being pushed through the grate of a child’s toy. The sheer amount of needles tumbling out of the ice in unison created something of an abrasive noise, as if many shards of glass were falling to the floor.
Reportedly, the phenomenon — known as “chandeliering” ice — happens when the temperature changes enough for the ice to begin melting, but rather than a full melt, thin slivers of ice break off of a main chunk until they eventually tumble down in a landslide-like fashion. There are a few reports of the phenomenon happening in the past, some of which created so many sharp ice slivers that they had to be cleaned away by front end loaders.
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