There's an Ice Floe in my Garden

This, ladies and gentlemen, is an ice floe of 1 square meter. Notice how it has wreaked havoc with those wooden boards on which a fragile flowerpot rests:

I think it's at least 20 centimeters thick (salinity should be zero):

How much more sea ice does the Arctic currently hold? The mind boggles.

Comments

[Greg Wellman]

Wait, is that ice over ice? Just like the recent refrozen bottom-melt paper! Or maybe not :-)

[logicman]

Ice over ice?

Greg: that looks like 'top down' ice filled with air bubbles on top of 'bottom down' ice growth, mostly free of air bubbles.

Neven: is that tank exposed to cold breezes? The two-layer effect looks like some of the pond ice I used to see a lot of in winter many years ago. Kentish winters aren't what they used to be. :)

[FrankD]

I can see the headline on the other side of the mirror - "Declining Ice Good News for At-Risk Flowerpots. A-pot-calypse Cancelled."

:-)

[logicman]

FrankD: you may have an idea there. Let's have a competition on those lines. Here's mine.

Missing Arctic ice found in blogger's garden.

[Neven]

A-pot-calypse... :-D

Here's mine:

"After white roofs alarmists now grow ice in backyards for albedo compensation"

[idunno]

Hi Neven,

quoting from my own good self on Open Thread 7...

"...my methodology of lying in the bath, getting ratted and thinking about things that I don't understand..."

Neven, please, please don't try this at home until you have upgraded your bathroom facilities;)