Cool air blowing southward across the sea ice and over the comparatively warmer open water produced long, parallel bands of cumulus clouds.
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Most of us prefer our winter roads free of ice, but some cloud formations depend on it.
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Tucked between Siberia and Russia's frozen Kamchatka Peninsula, the Sea of Okhotsk was a field of ice in February 2007.
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Cold winds blowing over the sea helped form rows of cumulus clouds.
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Cold winter winds helped paint a lovely scene off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
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Nature can generate some perplexing patterns, such as this isolated, snake-like patch of sea ice.
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The Sea of Okhotsk is the lowest latitude area where sea ice forms each winter.
Carried by winds and currents, sea ice can reach the coast of Hokkaido, Japan.
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Parallel rows of clouds can stretch for hundreds of kilometers over the open ocean.
Filaments of sea ice stretch across the waters off southern Greenland, an area that is typically ice-free.
Sea ice formed delicate swirls of blue and white in the Sea of Okhotsk in February 2009.
Cold air blows over warmer water to produce thin, parallel lines of clouds.
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Persistent, strong northerly winds have stretched the ice cover to its second widest extent.
Winds pushed Antarctic sea ice north of its typical location in February 2013.
Cold and dry air from Siberia typically produce this cloud formation over the sea from November through January.
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In 2015, the annual maximum extent of Antarctic sea ice dropped below previous consecutive years of record highs.
Summer brought melting swirls of sea ice to the southeastern coast of Greenland.
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Summer is a dynamic time for ice in Arctic waters—melting, drifting, and even forming occasionally.