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Ice Balls Form in Lake Michigan

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. There are some photographs of the ice balls here. Also, some much larger ice balls were discovered off the swedish coastline earlier this year.



Posted on January 26, 2010



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