{"id":25679,"date":"2019-02-10T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T00:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25679"},"modified":"2019-02-10T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T00:48:04","slug":"frazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25679","title":{"rendered":"Frazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A cold, windy atmosphere is a prescription for the creation of frazil.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Frazil\u00a0is a collection of loose, randomly oriented, tiny ice crystals\u00a0that forms in supercooled turbulent water. The air temperature is usually well below -6 \u00b0C, something easily attained in the last few days. Then the lake water can become slightly supercooled, say by about -0.1 \u00b0C, and tiny ice crystals form in the water.<\/p>\n<p>One might think that this would be a formula for border ice, but winds produce waves which prevent the formation of smooth ice on the surface, so the tiny crystals clump to form rafts of crystals floating on the water and these bump into one another to produce ridges that look like rims around pancakes.<\/p>\n<p>Pancakes of frazil form along the lakeshore as waves prevent the formation of border ice.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25680\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/frazil190210s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A cold, windy atmosphere is a prescription for the creation of frazil.\u00a0 Frazil\u00a0is a collection of loose, randomly oriented, tiny ice crystals\u00a0that forms in supercooled turbulent water. The air temperature is usually well below -6 \u00b0C, something easily attained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25679\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25684,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679\/revisions\/25684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}