What's White and Round and Goes Around

November 26, 2013 2:44 PM

Yet another natural wonder: The spinning ice disk.
posted by Xurando (11 comments total)

Whoa!
posted by KathrynT at 2:49 PM on November 26, 2013

Definitely aliens.
posted by goethean at 2:55 PM on November 26, 2013

Very cool.
posted by dougzilla at 4:09 PM on November 26, 2013

Known to the Vikings as "Loki's roulette wheel."
posted by XMLicious at 4:48 PM on November 26, 2013

This is "laughing baby video" for us weather geeks! Thanks!
posted by salishsea at 4:56 PM on November 26, 2013

Nature does some pretty strange stuff.
posted by BlueHorse at 5:30 PM on November 26, 2013 [1 favorite]

Liquid Crop Circles
posted by jim in austin at 6:23 PM on November 26, 2013

This is honestly the coolest thing I've seen today, no pun intended. I wish we had these where I live. We have frozen lakes and rivers, so...where are my spinning ice disks?
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:39 PM on November 26, 2013

This is honestly the coolest thing I've seen today, no pun intended. I wish we had these where I live. We have frozen lakes and rivers, so...where are my spinning ice disks?

Frozen.
posted by converge at 2:54 AM on November 27, 2013

Sounds like you need a slow, small to mid-size river that's in the process of either freezing or thawing, but not yet done. Spend a lot of time walking in the woods and I bet you could find one.
posted by echo target at 9:19 AM on November 27, 2013

I love seeing things I never knew existed and never would have imagined.

There was this MetaFilter post about Snow Rollers a few years ago that made me feel the same way. I grew up in Northern British Columbia -- we knew some shit about snow and ice up that way, so to discover that there are snow and ice related phenomenon that I've never heard of is cool.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:52 PM on November 27, 2013