Today I got off the farm (for a little while) and saw cool early spring things!
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Sometimes I think Saskatchewan might be another planet from anywhere else I've lived.
There are several large lakes that get thick layers of ice on top and are heavily used for ice fishing (with big trucks driving on the ice, to give you an idea of how thick it is). It takes a long time for that ice to melt, and it does it SO strangely. Weird vertical columns appear as the ice melts and make it break in really strange ways, especially on the edges where ice has pushed over the shoreline.
Listen to the cool sound it makes when it breaks!
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Listen to the cool sound it makes when it breaks!
@sundogplanets Ice candles! Common way for lake ice to melt out in mainland Alaska. The sound is amazing, especially when the decaying ice is moved by the wind, i.e. no human intervention.
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@sundogplanets Ice candles! Common way for lake ice to melt out in mainland Alaska. The sound is amazing, especially when the decaying ice is moved by the wind, i.e. no human intervention.
@AlaskaWx Oh of course there's a name for it! I should have just asked the hive mind. Thanks for educating me!
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Sometimes I think Saskatchewan might be another planet from anywhere else I've lived.
There are several large lakes that get thick layers of ice on top and are heavily used for ice fishing (with big trucks driving on the ice, to give you an idea of how thick it is). It takes a long time for that ice to melt, and it does it SO strangely. Weird vertical columns appear as the ice melts and make it break in really strange ways, especially on the edges where ice has pushed over the shoreline.
@sundogplanets ooh like those hexagonal lava columns in Ireland
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Sometimes I think Saskatchewan might be another planet from anywhere else I've lived.
There are several large lakes that get thick layers of ice on top and are heavily used for ice fishing (with big trucks driving on the ice, to give you an idea of how thick it is). It takes a long time for that ice to melt, and it does it SO strangely. Weird vertical columns appear as the ice melts and make it break in really strange ways, especially on the edges where ice has pushed over the shoreline.
@sundogplanets I've done some ski touring in Scandinavia and came across some remote hydro lakes where the ice folded over giant rocks when the water level went down, forming massive caves under meter thick ice. We once accidentally went into one under the ice (cause coming down a hill too fast in not ideal visibility) and it was fascinating
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@AlaskaWx Oh of course there's a name for it! I should have just asked the hive mind. Thanks for educating me!
To me they resemble ice shoves, or 'kruiend ijs' in Dutch, which are caused by strong wind. Ice shoves can grow very high and cause serious damage.
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Today I got off the farm (for a little while) and saw cool early spring things! Like...
Two scraggly young moose hanging out in a field by a dirt road we were driving on and going to nom down some dogwood sticks
@sundogplanets look at those youngins! I noticed the grass here is starting to turn green as we’re seeing warmer days.
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To me they resemble ice shoves, or 'kruiend ijs' in Dutch, which are caused by strong wind. Ice shoves can grow very high and cause serious damage.
Wikipedia rabbit hole... While ice candles don't have their own entry, the more general term appears to be called rotten ice, or candle ice.
So many terms for ice...
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Sometimes I think Saskatchewan might be another planet from anywhere else I've lived.
There are several large lakes that get thick layers of ice on top and are heavily used for ice fishing (with big trucks driving on the ice, to give you an idea of how thick it is). It takes a long time for that ice to melt, and it does it SO strangely. Weird vertical columns appear as the ice melts and make it break in really strange ways, especially on the edges where ice has pushed over the shoreline.
@sundogplanets oh heck yes
I grew up in SK near the south SK river… that sound and these photos are like a portal back. -
Wikipedia rabbit hole... While ice candles don't have their own entry, the more general term appears to be called rotten ice, or candle ice.
So many terms for ice...
@hlangeveld @sundogplanets Collectively I'd call this "candle ice". Individual elements, "ice candles". Tanacross Dene (one of the Indigenous languages of Interior Alaska) has a specific way to refer to this kind of ice: ɬuut els̲uus lit "ice is cone-shaped". This kind of ice is unsafe to travel on.
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Sometimes I think Saskatchewan might be another planet from anywhere else I've lived.
There are several large lakes that get thick layers of ice on top and are heavily used for ice fishing (with big trucks driving on the ice, to give you an idea of how thick it is). It takes a long time for that ice to melt, and it does it SO strangely. Weird vertical columns appear as the ice melts and make it break in really strange ways, especially on the edges where ice has pushed over the shoreline.
@sundogplanets Once when doing geophys work in NWT on a lakes, the top of the ice melted then refroze. As we walked on the thin layer of ice, we didn’t know how deep the water was underneath. Concerning as we heard the top ice cracking. I eventually found out the water layer was not deeper than my rubber boots
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@hlangeveld @sundogplanets Collectively I'd call this "candle ice". Individual elements, "ice candles". Tanacross Dene (one of the Indigenous languages of Interior Alaska) has a specific way to refer to this kind of ice: ɬuut els̲uus lit "ice is cone-shaped". This kind of ice is unsafe to travel on.
Sounds like the same reason for calling it 'rotten ice'.
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Sounds like the same reason for calling it 'rotten ice'.
@hlangeveld @sundogplanets Indeed.
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