❤️ Giant Ice Disc in Maine #IceCropCircle
As one might expect when a circular ice formation appears, crowds are lining the Presumpscot River in Westbrook and the internet is going wild over the spectacle.
Naturally forming ice discs are not unheard of. News stories of such circles have popped up over the years across the United States, but they’re considered rare and none that have gained any publicity have been as large as the one in Westbrook, which onlookers say is about 100 yards in diameter.
The discs “occur at bends in the river where the accelerating water creates a force called ‘rotational shear,’ which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around,” the Daily Mail once reported, when one of the circles was seen in Great Britain for what was believed to be the first time in 2009. “As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice, smoothing into a perfect circle.”
