Rare Phenomena: Giant Ice Balls Form On Beach In Siberia (1 Viewer)

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Rare Phenomena: Giant Ice Balls Form On Beach In Siberia



Via The Watchers, 7th November 2016

Thousands of large ice balls have appeared on a beach in Nyda, Russian Siberia in late October 2016 and remain to this day. Many US meteorologists believe this is a sign of extra snowy winter throughout the United States.

This is the first time that this rare natural phenomenon occurred in Nyda, located on the Yamal Peninsula just above the Artic Circle. The balls are scattered along the beach for at least 18 km (11 miles).

'We have them only in one place. It's as if someone spilled them. They are all of different sizes, from tennis balls to volleyball," local resident Ekaterina Chernykh told The Siberian Times.

Russian officials said...
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Thank you for showing us this fascinating natural phenomenon. If you view Gaia as a body, I get the intuition this is like fibroids collecting in a certain "wash-up" place in the human body. Here's hoping they dissolve naturally and pretty quickly so that Gaia can continue as a healthy body.
 

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