Giant icicle found in Scotland

Published: 7:30AM GMT 05 March 2010

The twenty-seven feet icicle unresolved underneath the Dulnain Bridge Photo: CATERS

The hulk solidified spike, the longest of several, was held on camera unresolved underneath the Dulnain Bridge, Grantown, Inverness-shire.

The icicles vacant David Lambie, an pledge photographer, when he speckled them swinging only inches from the solidified waters of the River Spey.

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The 72-year-old the icicle had grown from only twelve feet to twenty-seven in a make a difference of weeks. The arrangement was totalled by locals swinging a fasten off the side of the bridge.

Mr Lambie, who runs the Speyside Heather Centre, pronounced it was a outcome of the coldest British winter for thirty years.

He said: "I took this shot only last week and there are still icicles there, when I saw them at initial I knew I longed for to sketch them.

"It was frozen but the outing was value it. As I was erratic behind there was an god like pile-up and one of the icicles plunged in to the water.

"We listen to a lot about England traffic with the cold continue but I don"t think you guys realize what it"s unequivocally all about.

"We still have sleet up here and it has shown no signs of going anywhere, there are plateau of it by the sides of the roads.

"It contingency have been about reduction sixteen here last night, but at slightest it has been good for the skiing."

Water entrance from a leaking siren inside the overpass over the Spey is thought to have caused the outrageous structures to form.

Icicles are shaped by melting H2O using in to an area where the air heat is a next frozen creation it form ice. As some-more H2O runs down the ice the icicle grows in size.