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Rare phenomenon: a mysterious ice balls filled the shore on the Yamal Peninsula

Редкое явление: загадочные ледяные шары заполнили берег на Ямале18 miles of the coast of the Kara sea in Russia was strewn with large ice balls

On the coast of the Ob Bay in the Yamal residents of the village of Nyda could observe a very unusual natural phenomenon.

Many ice balls ranging from ten to twenty-five centimeters in diameter. These balls were formed from-for a heavy snowfall followed by a thaw and heavy storm.

The representative of the administration Nyda Valery Also said that at the time was a lot of snow, the water level in the Gulf of Ob rose. The ice on the river broke into waves and the pieces began to adhere to the snow. A strong wind gives these rocks lie in one place and rolls them into spheres about the sand. Also, this natural phenomenon is called grease ice or slush.

The locals did not remain aloof from this phenomenon. They began to take pictures and to mold them snowmen. The Internet space is full of photos with this unique work of nature.

In 2014 publicly, the same phenomenon was observed on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, as the sphere time in several years, you can see lake Michigan (North America).

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