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martyb [soylentnews.org] writes:

News of crop circles [wikipedia.org] come and go, but when is the last time you saw a rotating ice circle? A disk of ice approximately 100 yards in diameter [gizmodo.com] has been spotted in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine:

This week in the city of Westbrook, Maine, a huge, rotating circle of ice formed on the Presumpscot River. While it seems like it could be an omen of the impending apocalypse or a particularly low-effort attempt at a crop circle by extraterrestrials, in reality it appears to be another example of a natural yet rare phenomenon [nbcnewyork.com] resulting from some simple physics [gizmodo.com].

Photos taken by and the city of Westbrook’s marketing & communications manager, Tina Radel, show the gigantic disk of ice appearing to have a surface area larger than a nearby, multi-story parking garage. True to municipal form, the city also published a video of the ice disk with a dramatic soundtrack:

Pictures and videos in the story require Javascript; videos are posted to YouTube [youtube.com] and Vimeo [vimeo.com].

Additional coverage at the Portland Press Herald. [pressherald.com]

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