Ice Balls Form in Lake Michigan
Posted on January 26, 2010
You can see numerous ice balls that have formed in Lake Michigan and along the shore in the Chicago Tribune video below. Wind, wave motion and a temperature just below freezing likely contributed to the creation of the ice spheres. The video shows balls that have already formed and new ice balls being created in the water. Some of the ice spheres are more perfectly shaped than others. There are some photographs of the ice balls here. Also, some much larger ice balls were discovered off the Swedish coastline earlier this year.
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