Creeping Ice on Lake Superior

[Deadrose8496]

It has to do with ice nucleation. The water at the surface in that area is fairly pure, so it freezes slowly. If a upsurge of warmer water happened somewhere it brought some sediment up with it. This gave the more pure water something to bind to to start freezing, and it speed out from that area. Water cam be below freezing and not freeze until something is introduced. You can see this if you cool distilled water to about - 8 C or around 28 F, thin drop a small piece of ice into it w/twezers.

[texaschainsawman]

if you look towards the bottom right corner of the screen at 0:15 you can see a huge eel!

[BloodyGuru]

I have an explanation for this mysterious happening: It's cold.

[blazenherb4]

this happens because you touch yourself at night...

[shaners12345]

I just farted.

[snakemanzan10]

@shaners12345 nasty ass bastard what the hell is the point of putting that on the internet no one cares you fuck faced douche bag

[christof139]

Lake Superior has a small tide of about 2 to 3-inches. The sieche or slosh waves are rare but they can travel hundreds of miles per hour it seems and get up to 16-foot in heigth as recorded on Lake Ontario.

[swedishhighball]

Lake Superior does not have a tide. It does have what is called a seiche. A seiche is a fluctuation in water level caused by atmospheric conditions ie: barometric pressure, wind, etc.

[swedishhighball]

Ice could have been pushed by "Harvey the Great Lakes Whale". (a book available online about LakeSuperior).

[charleslang]

Maybe it wasn't freezing right there before your eyes but it was rather a huge ice sheet moving in.

[LibertyForAll37]

I used to SWIM in Lake S. at a friend's camp when there was still ice on the lake (early May) but it was further out and we were swimming in icicles close to the shore. LOL, I was young!!! No way I could do it now! LOL

[musicferret]

Are you kidding!? THis is very simple: partially tide, partially water currents which do go around on the lake. Ice that thin is very light and will move with minimal water changes.

[bwicky]

we don't have an early thaw in feb. our early thaw begins n april

[rayofminneapolis]

that was that weird early thaw. I saw the same thing on the Mississippi. Icebergs were suddenly floating downstreem! I'll post that video sometime.

[adimno]

Actually Lake Superior is large enough to have a very small tide, it is only about 3 inches and the wave action usually hides it, but it is enought o produce this effect on very still days.

[Chuckmills]

I would say water temp changes moving in? but thats only a theory