Giant Ice Block Smashes Car in FL
Another giant ice block from the sky, or "megacryometeor" [WikiPedia] has crushed a car in Florida yesterday. The NWS said that conditions were not favorable for this type of phenomenon, but others said it couldn't have been a plane either because it didn't have a blue tint and flight patterns didn't match. NBC4 has video and a photo and says the ice was 18 square inches; Fox News is also showing some impressive footage of the car on-air.
NOT THE ACTUAL ICE BLOCK
BUT RATHER A COMMON "ICE CUBE"
Some people are blaming it on Global Warming (like everything else), but Dr. David Travis' explanation doesn't make sense to me as a meteorologist.
This is the third such incident in the United States in the past two weeks.MyFoxTampaBay points out other recent occurrences: "Just one week earlier, two homes were damaged by planes dropping ice. The first was in Philadelphia (photos, story); the other in San Diego (photos, story)."
It is not known how megacryometeors form, though they do happen from time to time. I blogged about an occurrence last spring where one punched a big hole in the ground in Oakland, California.
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