WEIRD ICE FORMATIONS NEAR BRADDOCK BAY
Written By: Scott Hetsko
Image By: Patti Kocinski
Have you ever seen this before? I got this picture sent to me today from Patti Kocinski who took this picture near Braddock Bay yesterday morning.
Patti's email:
"Yesterday, Jan 14, 2010 around 11 AM I was up along the lake shore near Braddock Bay and I saw the attached ice formations and took several images. I was wondering if you could tell me how they formed into such a shape as I've never seen this before and I've lived here in Rochester all my life? Thanks."
I have seen all sorts of cool ice formations occurring on the lake in Winter before but nothing like this! Since I can't answer how these formed, I was hoping you might know. If you know how this little ice rings form, please comment below!
Something to do with the sun and it's interaction with heat rising from the lake during one of our super cold days? Maybe thermal boundaries? Perhaps pockets or bubbles of warmer / colder water rising to the surface and then freezing once it hit the air?
ReplyDeletewell i sure dont know how something like that formed, but i have a somewhat different question. being from batavia i grew up hearing my ancesters talk about the great blizzard of '77. if youre from buffalo or batavia you know exactly where you were when it struck. its a blizzard that made headlines globally! there is even a book about it, titled "the white death." why do we never hear about this blizzard in rochester? did it not hit rochester? I know it hit as close as Leroy because my uncle tells me about having to be rescued from his buried car near the Genesee / Monroe county line.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to learn more about the Blizzard of '77 then go to my website and listen to the emergency broadcasts during this disaster and see my pics from my book White Death The Blizzard of '77 now in its 30th Anniversary Edition. http://www.whitedeath.com
ReplyDeleteTom Niziol and I will be at the main library at 6pm in Buffalo on Thursday January 28 to talk about this unique blizzard. I'll include a media release here if it fits.
Media Release
The Blizzard of ’77-33rd Anniversary
It can’t be true. The 33rd anniversary of the Blizzard of ’77 on Thursday January 28th 2010! Well don’t get caught with your snowsuits down or else you might get frostbite or “frostburn” as Erno Rossi calls it, author of White Death-The Blizzard of ’77, now in its 30th Anniversary Edition with 432 pages and more than 70 classic pictures.
Rossi joins Tom Niziol, Meteorologist-In-Charge - National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY to discuss The Blizzard of ’77-The Storm of All Storms for Western New York and Southern Ontario at 6 p.m. on January 28, in a free and open to the public seminar at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo N.Y.
Both Rossi and Niziol are guests of the IWEC (The International Weather Experience Center,) a group that is in favor of building such a center where people can see and feel all forms of weather, mild and extreme.
For more information call Ann Conable, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
Anne Conable
Development & Communications
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Tel: 716-858-8050 conablea@buffalolib.org
Erno Rossi
Tel: 905-835-8051
erossi@cogeco.ca
www.whitedeath.com
Its called PANCAKE ICE its formed by the movement of the water and ice rubbing together and temp changes. I saw a lot of this type while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard aboard several ice breakers on the lakes
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