The movement of the water under the frozen lake pushed the ice up, creating the weird formations and patterns along the city's pier this week, according to MLive.
.@PureMichigan moment: Gorgeous blue ice shards are piling up along the Lake Michigan shoreline 😍 This is the awesome scene in @SouthHavenMI https://t.co/hut9NmbgTH
— MLive (@MLive) March 20, 2019
📷: @Bissell2300 of @MLive/@Kzoo_Gazette pic.twitter.com/h72AbbNNoQ
This is SO neat!
— clevelanddotcom (@clevelanddotcom) March 21, 2019
Gorgeous blue ice shards are piling up along the Lake Michigan shoreline 😍
This is the awesome scene in South Haven, Michigan.
📸: Joel Bissell, MLive/Kalamazoo Gazette pic.twitter.com/OGoNH2xLp6
The lake may look frozen, but this is the time of year when the lake ice is extremely unstable, due to weather conditions.
The U.S. Coast Guard is warning people not to risk going out on it.
"No ice is safe ice, especially this time of year," Grant Heffner, of the U.S. Coast Guard, told MLive.
"The ice is certainly deteriorating and breaking up," Heffner said.
Photo credit: Joel Bissell @Bissell2300 | https://t.co/0GRlKF5xuW https://t.co/hfWiuMkuUP
— Mickey Ciokajlo (@mciokajlo) March 21, 2019
Photo by Joel Bissell #IceAge pic.twitter.com/rAHZgIXW3J
— The Ice Age (@Jamie_Woodward_) March 21, 2019
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