Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, remains covered with ice for almost five months a year.
Every winter as the temperature plummets below zero, the surface of the worlds largest freshwater lake freezes.
When other rivers and lakes froze long before in the year, Baikal still resists ice formation.
Its cold waves break against the shore and decorate the seaboard rocks with icy patterns.
The ice on average is about a meter thick allowing cars and trucks to be easily driven over.
The thickest sections can be up to two meters thick.
Photo credit: Alexey Trofimov
The ice heats up during the day and cools at night.
The huge swing in temperature causes the ice to crack.
They usually form along trough cracks or along-shore and can be 10-12 meters high.
The hummocks glow in the sunlight like huge pieces of emerald.
Lake Baikal is truly interesting.
It is considered among the world’s clearest lakes and the world’s oldest lake at 25 million years.
It is also the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.
Photo credit: Alex Cheban
Sources:Wikipedia/www.bww.irk.ru/www.baikalnature.com
