This phenomenon is extremely rare
A new natural anomaly has been recorded in Yamal. Residents of the village of Nyda found huge ice balls on the coast of the Gulf of Ob, the diameter of which is from 10 centimeters to half a meter.
Photos of the next miracle of nature scattered across social networks.
- Under cover of night, Santa Claus, bored without winter, rolled balls for snowmen. But apparently someone scared me off. And the snowmen remained just balls, - the locals joke in the comments.
But scientists have already commented on the phenomenon, saying that although it is extremely rare, it is quite natural. The reason for the formation of giant snowballs was the warm autumn and heavy snowfalls.
- The water in the river arrived, forming accumulations of snow-ice mass on the shore. When the combination of wind and tide forces, multiplied by temperature fluctuations, came into play, those amazing ice balls were formed, - Planet Today quotes the words of the representative of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Sergey Lisenkov.
Veronica Nikolaeva
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