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Creeping Ice on Lake Superior

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Uploaded by on May 31, 2006

Can anybody explain this phenomenon? On about February 20, 2005, we were standing on the shore of Lake Superior on a sunny, windless winter day, when the glassy-calm water suddenly FROZE. It began as a distant crackling sound, then got louder a the freezing ice approached shore at about 1 mph. The ice crept over rocks that broke the water's surface near shore. When it finally stopped, the lake's surface looked like a windowpane of 1/4 inch glass as far out as the eye could see. Any meteorologists or others who can explain the near-spontanaeity of this amazing lake-freeze?

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

  • I just farted.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • this happens because you touch yourself at night...

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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