Needle Ice

Tanuki

I was hiking in Okutama (Japan) over New Years, and found this stuff "growing" on the side of the trail. I've never seen it before, but the Japanese people I met were all familar with it so it must be common in that area.

I think it's called "needle ice" in English. Anyone seen anything like this before?

Mike

http://tanuki.smugmug.com/photos/240734099-L.jpg

Tanuki

Tanuki wrote:

I was hiking in Okutama (Japan) over New Years, and found this stuff "growing" on the side of the trail. I've never seen it before, but the Japanese people I met were all familar with it so it must be common in that area.

I think it's called "needle ice" in English. Anyone seen anything like this before?

Mike

http://tanuki.smugmug.com/photos/240734099-L.jpg

Oops... didn't post properly. Here it is...

Skippy

Tanuki wrote:

I was hiking in Okutama (Japan) over New Years, and found this stuff "growing" on the side of the trail. I've never seen it before, but the Japanese people I met were all familar with it so it must be common in that area.

I think it's called "needle ice" in English. Anyone seen anything like this before?

Mike

I've never seen Needle Ice either, but then we don't even get frost at my place

What makes it form like.... that do you know
Is this a formation only seen in a particular part of the world?

Thanks for sharing Mike ......... Skippy
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Tanuki

Skippy wrote:

I've never seen Needle Ice either, but then we don't even get frost at my place

What makes it form like.... that do you know
Is this a formation only seen in a particular part of the world?

Thanks for sharing Mike ......... Skippy
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Thanks for the reply Skippy. Here are some references I found online. It's an interesting phenonemon!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_ice

http://www.mwrop.org/W_Needham/NeedleIce_070123.htm

The second link gives the names for needle ice in Swedish, German and Japanese, so it must occur around the world.

Mike

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful capture- never seen this phenomenon
Brian V.