Spring Is Here! Time For House-Crushing Walls of Ice

Summer is almost upon us, yet Mother Nature is still dropping nasty frozen tricks. This weekend, communities in Canada and the United States got to witness a meteorological phenomenon many folks are lucky never to hear about: lake-ice steamrollers.

Weather that moves horizontal is often perilous – tornadoes and derechos come to mind – and so it was with huge masses of migrating ice on Manitoba's Dauphin Lake and Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota. For reference, the bodies of water are located at the upper left and bottom right of this satellite photo taken Sunday by the Suomi satellite: