Frozen waterfall with a cloud of diamond dust – a delicious phenomenon of the winter salmon
At one of the waterfalls of the salmon river now it is possible to observe a unique phenomenon. It's tiny ice crystals, forming so-called "diamond dust" flying on the frozen jets of water in windless, Sunny weather. Millions of ice needles present a fascinating phenomenon that has attracted a lot of tourists wanting to capture this natural treasure on the camera lens. In social networks appeared stunning pictures and videos with enthusiastic user comments. Fairy dust complement nevertheless great ice streams of the waterfall that resemble stalactites magical cave. The length of some of them reaches several meters. The height of the waterfall is 33 m. more
In spite of the enchanting beauty and natural wonder is fraught with danger. Too close to ice flows is impossible. Careless movement, the sharp and hard fragments can cause serious injury.
Huge columns of frozen water you can see not only Oswego. Travelers capture this phenomenon also in Colorado, Minneapolis, Hebei province, China, Iceland, Croatia, Wyoming, North-Eastern Italy, Norway, France, Slovenia, and Canada. The most desperate thrill-seekers use the frozen wall as skalodrom.
If it is not possible to go into a far country, frozen waterfalls can be seen in Russia. These waterfalls in Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, and the Red region, the Murmansk region, Kamchatka, Karelia, Primorsky Krai, Adygea and even in the Crimea.
So popular, this phenomenon owes to the fact that most used to see the waterfalls as raging waters, which is a breakneck pace and energy fall from a great height down. But frozen in vertical position water is the phenomenon that causes cognitive dissonance in the human mind.
Frozen waterfalls are very slow. First, freeze the river, slowing the current. And the waterfall formed a sludge – water with small pieces of ice, which gradually sticks to the rocks, and then fused together.
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