Scientists have theories for how the 300-foot disk formed, though the phenomenon isn’t entirely understood.
Like an icy lazy Susan; a wintry carousel; a frozen, spinning wheel—it takes little more than an ice disk to capture public attention and imagination.
One such ice disk befell the town of Westbrook, Maine, on Monday, slowly churning to life in the Presumpscot River that runs through the town’s urban developments. As of Thursday, the disk was still intact and spinning.
“It kind of looks like a crop circle,” one resident told the Portland Press Herald.
It appears to be in the same spot though it reportedly changes opacity depending on the time of day and cloud coverage. The Herald estimates the ice disk to be 300 feet wide, one of the largest of its kind, but certainly not the first.
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