Siberian river "made" hundreds of giant snowballs

The shore of the Ob Bay near the village of Nyda in the Yamal Peninsula of nearly two dozen miles was strewn with large ice balls. Sized "snowballs" reach 10-25 cm in diameter, "Vesti-Yamal". According to the village old-timers, they not seen anything like it. Local Siberians came to the coast and surprised looking at the white lumps, thinking, where did they come from. Scientists from AARI explained a rare natural phenomenon a good set of weather conditions: during these days the region has abundant precipitation, including sleet, accumulations of loose ice in the rivers (sludge) and strong winds. In the result of ice shards on the Bank acquires new layers until they were grinded and rolled the surf. In 2014, the same megasnake "blinded" the waves of the Gulf of Finland and on the coast of the freshwater lake Michigan in the United States, they are formed every few years.

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