Waves of ice, perfectly shaped by the wind, given away by the sharp drop in temperatures in Canada, which continues to have serious repercussions. Lakes, rivers and inland waters of bays and harbors along the eastern coast of Canada have changed since temperatures dropped below the threshold of -10 ° C -15 ° C. The stretch of sea around the island of Nantucket, 48 km south of Cape Cod, just off the coast of Massachusetts, has frozen oiginando fascinating and mysterious icy waves that the photographer and surfer Jonathan Nimerfroh has skillfully captured.
In years past had already appeared similar phenomena in Canada, Alaska and the coast of eastern Siberia, where they had generated some real ice walls as high as more than 4-5 meters. Those that occurred recently in have not yet reached alarming for things and people. Erin Pettit, glaciologist at the University of Alaska, said the meteorological phenomenon explained: “I had never seen waves freeze that way. Alaska is not the ice to freeze the waves, if anything, are the waves to break the sea ice. ”
Walking on the beach, the photographer Nimerfroh saw before him these amazing waves moving, slowed slightly by a thin layer of wet snow, small ice crystals not yet aggregated. He told about it: “I noticed a horizon really weird” and then “On the shore I had snow up to his knees. I saw these waves half frozen. Usually in the summer you hear the sound of waves infragono, but there was all completely silent. As if I had the headphones in my ears. “
