The Westbrook ice disk has returned to the Presumpscot River under Saccarappa Falls, as seen on this photograph taken Jan. 11, 2022, in Westbrook, Maine. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald by way of AP)
Maine's well-known rotating ice disk is again.
The disk has begun to type within the Presumpscot River, the place it partially fashioned in 2020 however failed to attract a worldwide viewers like in its first look in 2019.
Westbrook metropolis officers shared photographs of the formation Wednesday on Fb, encouraging residents to share extra pictures of the disk whereas it is nonetheless round.
Ice disks type on account of a present and vortex below the ice. Ice sheets start to spin after which type into circles. However ice disks this huge hardly ever type in areas like Westbrook.
Metropolis officers discouraged anybody from trying to exit on the ice: "It's not protected."
Three years in the past, a 90-metre ice formation appeared within the river for the primary time and introduced worldwide consideration to Westbrook earlier than it dissipated with the appearance of hotter climate.
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