At freezing temperatures the waves create glacier ice which rises up from the bay which you can see in the background. These glacial ice formations push forward with every wave that freezes to the back side of it at the shoreline. Water expands as it freezes, an anomaly found in very few liquids as most liquid state molecules shrink closer together when they reach their freezing point. However a simple experiment of filling a Mason jar to the brim with water, placing a cap and sealing ring tightly on the lid, and placing it in the freezer will within a few hours prove disastrous as the water begins to expand. With no room or place to expand up, it it will expand outwardly, thus exploding the glass Mason jar while it sets in your freezer. This is why the ice continually encroches upon the path of least resistance. What looks like snow is actually very small ice crystals that look like snow pack. Likely this is sea water and not lake water, therefore it contains salt which causes the ice to not form the same way as none saline ice which forms block ice glacier ice. It is well known that the polar waters of the Artic Ocean and the surrounding waters of the Antarctic Continent have a drastically lower saline content. This allows for denser block ice formation. Higher saline (salt) content as you move toward the Equator causes higher buoyancy push upwards because of the density water. This explains why as floating glacial ice floats towards the equator the glacier rises further to the surface. But more to the point of this video if you watch the details, you can observe these listed points. 1. The obviousness that this video is watermarked with Asian Konji or Hanja. 2. Most of this film is taken from a direction toward a very large body of water. 3. Many English speaking people of Caucasian origin live in Asian countries. So though they speak English and as I personally recall (I watched the video yesterday) being Caucasian or Caucasian/Asian mixture, it is no surprise that they might be living and plausibly home owners in the community in which this film originates. 4. Very cold temperature storms and winter conditions do exist in many Asian - Pacific countries, including Northern China, North and South Korea, and the Northern Japanese Islands; by which of my limited knowledge of konji, the watermark is to my understanding either Hanja (Korean logography) or Japanese Konji of some variation. 5. This specific region of the Asian - Pacific is much closer to the Artic then most of our lower 48 states with the interesting exception of the state of Maine. Maine is notorious for having harsh winters as it is closest to the Artic of the lower 48. We ignore the cities of Buffalo, Chicago, Milwaukee, etc. because they are influenced by the Great Lakes and the cold Artic air coming down from Canada. That creates winter storms and block ice glacier formations, however the lakes have a much lower saline content than ocean waters so the likelihood of fine powder ice crystals is minimal at best. Instead it will form the afore mentioned clear block ice. 6. In observing the video you can see that the edge of the glacier is breaking up and yet ice spikes are forming sideways in a rapid timing. This is most likely due to the salt content in the ice and a near subzero freezing condition. This will cause the edge ice to melt and recrystalize rapidly. This adds to the forward motion and actual push of what looks like snow. With all that hypothesis said, I have to say that is very, very cool. I would like to inform you that I did a diligent amount of research and investigation in order to come to this conclusion. I personally believe this footage originates from Northern Japan. There are also numerous News videos and articles about block ice encroachment on shoreline homes in Northern Mid - West States near the Great Lakes. These reports are obviously block ice. Not exactly the same as what we see here. I hope this helps in the question of what this phenomenon is and why it occurred.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:49:45 +0000
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