Ice tallow (snezhura) is a snow cover on the surface of the water, a thin mushy layer that forms when a large amount of snow falls. The water is at a temperature close to the freezing point.
The peculiar appearance of the snow is due to the presence of a current, but a small one.
A mush–like, semi-frozen blanket of snow, colliding with various obstacles in the form of other snow masses, bridge supports, and banks at the point where the river turns, crumples and forms such shapes.
I've seen this kind of thing in pictures before, and I've been waiting for the right conditions to form a snow tallow.
And now the day has come when the river has not frozen yet, but a lot of snow has fallen.
I looked at the river views on the cameras and was convinced of the presence of ice tallow: even from afar it is unmistakable! Fight urgently!
Snezhura is best photographed from above, for this I chose two bridges.
The description of the appearance of the forms is very diverse, whatever these shapes look like!
Crumpled bedspread, khinkali, guts, brains, foam on milk porridge...
Unknowingly, someone panicked and started writing to all kinds of environmental services, sounding the alarm.
In fact, this phenomenon is rare, but by its nature it is quite common.
I've seen a lot of rivers and grew up among them, but this is the first time I've seen this.
And all because of the very slow current on the Vologda River. If it had been faster, it wouldn't have worked...
To be continued...