In Scotland noticed the rare hairy ice

These gorgeous photos can't be cotton candy, and the so-called hairy ice. The phenomenon captured the 62-year-old Wilma stark, who spent her vacation in Dunkeld in Scotland.

The woman was walking through the woods when she came across a silky volosatoy the ice that usually forms on the deadwood.

The day before it was snowing, and when it melted, came a cold but dry day. When it rains, logs become the ideal material for absorption of moisture and the formation of hairy ice. Their rotting porous insides are filled with water and when water freezes, the ice gets frozen through the pores of the wood, forming a thin thread.

This phenomenon is one of the first recorded Alfred Wegener in 1918. He watched the strange ice formation only during the wet shalese and put forward the theory that the catalyst of the process of the formation of ice hairs can be a fungus. In 2015, almost 100 years later, scientists finally linked the phenomenon of hairy ice with a fungus called Exidiopsis effuse.

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