Bitter cold, windy weather creates ice balls on northern Lake Michigan
By: Sheri McWhirter, MLIve
EMPIRE, MI – It takes a certain set of brutal winter weather conditions to create ice balls on the Great Lakes.
Ice balls developed this week at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore after multiple consecutive days of sub-freezing air temperatures combined with wind coming off the water. The phenomenon is a natural progression of those weather conditions, weather officials said, with ice balls sloshing around in the frigid Lake Michigan waters.
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