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Frozen Snow (Close Up)

Posted by Katherine Lukens,
North Country explorer from Amesbury
February 4, 2015

I have always been fascinated by icicles and the process of water freezing. I took this picture at Stone Valley when I ventured down to the water, partly frozen. The habitat that this picture illustrates is a river, surrounded by wooded This picture depicts snow that is partially freezing, with small icicles. The size of these icicles could not cause any damage to a person, however, sometimes icicles can form to be more than three feet long. Icicles can form during bright, sunny, but subfreezing weather, when ice or snow melted by sunlight or some other heat source. On our campus, there are large icicles that form off the sides of buildings and if not manually cut off, they could easily fall and injure or kill someone walking underneath.