Rare ‘frost flowers’ bloom in the Shuswap
SALMON ARM – Mother Nature sprouted some special flowers last week in Salmon Arm.
It’s a rare phenomenon, but when air is colder than ice on a lake, ‘frost flowers’ can grow. Those blossoms were captured by local resident D’Arcy McLeod.
“It was like a magic garden of flowers growing on the frozen lake,” McLeod says.
He noticed them about a kilometer off the public wharf in Salmon Arm Bay.
“They’re very pretty, delicate things,” he says.
The flowers are in fact ice crystals that form when moist vapour hits the cold air and condenses into icicles. Typically, there has to be little wind for the flowers to form.
With recent snowfall, McLeod says the ice garden has mostly vanished.
To contact the reporter for this story, email Charlotte Helston at chelston@infotelnews.ca or call 250-309-5230. To contact the editor, email mjones@infotelnews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
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ok ok ok ; this makes up for me still being around here instead of being in Sedona for the winter!
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I seen them around1984 off Canoe beach , when the lake froze over and there was no snow and we were able to skate across the lake to sunnybreaand back! it was an amazing thing to see them.
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