{"id":9751,"date":"2014-02-04T09:56:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9751"},"modified":"2014-02-04T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:54:15","slug":"border-ice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9751","title":{"rendered":"Border ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ice is endlessly fascinating; its various forms are a frequent topic for this blog in the winter.<\/p>\n<p>As the air temperature now ranges between -15C and -10C, ice is making its appearance along the shoreline. It forms where the water is shallow, flow is minimal, and waves aren&#8217;t disruptive. Initially, it is frazil: individual crystals floating freely. These proliferate and consolidate to form skim ice, which now covers the water surface, but lacks strength. These are stages in the formation of the border ice that clings to the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>Frazil ice has consolidated to form some chaotic-looking skim ice.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9753\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ice140201s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, border ice has formed so slowly that it contains few bubbles and so is almost transparent. It looks dark because we are looking through it into the water below. The white crystals are frost growing atop the border ice.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9752\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ice130202s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ice is endlessly fascinating; its various forms are a frequent topic for this blog in the winter. As the air temperature now ranges between -15C and -10C, ice is making its appearance along the shoreline. It forms where the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9751\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-9751","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\/9751","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=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9757,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions\/9757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}