Saturday 23 January 2021

Ice Age

I spotted the strangest ice formation in the garden yesterday, following a hard, overnight freeze after the heavy rains.



The deluge created a mini-lake in a particularly badly drained part of the garden. The overnight freeze caused the surface layer of the water to freeze, but the water underneath drained away through the soil, leaving a semi-suspended layer of ice, with the occasional latticework where the surface had only partly crystalized before the water drained naturally.

Then I saw what looked like a shag pile carpet on my car. Click on the photos to enlarge and see how the crystals grew to resemble fur.



Beautiful, ain't it?


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