A rare natural phenomenon was captured in the Belarusian city of Chausy. On the Basya river, a perfectly flat ice disk of a couple of tens of meters in diameter formed, which slowly rotated. You can see this amazing scene with your own eyes when you include the video below, taken by one of the local residents. Such ice circles form on rivers with slow streams.
Due to the vortex current, a piece of ice on the river begins to rotate, and its edges gradually grind against the surrounding ice. The result is a perfectly flat flat disc with a diameter of several to tens of meters, on which some daredevils even ride like on a carousel. Similar ice discs have been repeatedly noticed in winter also on the rivers of Russia, Ukraine, Canada, USA, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Germany, Great Britain and other countries.
In the old days, people took an unusual natural phenomenon for the tricks of unclean forces and avoided places with these circles until the ice melted. Today people perceive all this as a gift from winter, in this case it is almost a New Year's surprise for the residents of the city of Chausy. They do not hide the fact that Mother Nature singled them out for something and rewarded them so generously on the eve of the New Year …