Icicle
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An icicle is a spike of ice formed when water falling from an object freezes. [1]
Icicles can form during bright, sunny, but subfreezing weather, when ice or snow melted by sunlight or some other heat source (such as a poorly insulated building), refreezes as it drips off under exposed conditions. Another set of conditions is during ice storms, when rain falling in air slightly below freezing slowly accumulates as numerous small icicles hanging from twigs, leaves, wires, etc. Thirdly, icicles can form wherever water seeps out of or drips off vertical surfaces such as road cuts or cliffs. [1]
Icicles can pose both personal and structural dangers. [2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Icicle. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icicle
- ↑ CityNews.ca – Dangerous Icicles A Concern As Pieces Fall From Above Archived 4 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine