Icicle on a tree

Icicles on a bush

Icicle on a roof

Close up of an icicle

A large icicle

Icicle (yacht) is also the name of the largest Ice yacht

An icicle is a spike of ice formed when water dripping or falling from another object freezes. Typically, icicles will form when ice or snow is melted by either sunlight or some other heat source (such as heat leaking from the interior of a heated building), and the resulting melted water runs off into an area where the ambient temperature is below the freezing point of water (0°C/32°F), causing the water to refreeze. Over time continued water runoff will cause the icicle to grow. Icicles hang from the branches of a bush File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Icicles hang from the branches of a bush File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1524 × 2032 pixels, file size: 932 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1524 × 2032 pixels, file size: 932 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Download high resolution version (1280x1021, 275 KB)Icicles Taken by User:Fir0002 File links The following pages link to this file: Ice Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (1280x1021, 275 KB)Icicles Taken by User:Fir0002 File links The following pages link to this file: Ice Categories: GFDL images ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixels, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixels, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Icicle. ... Image File history File links Icicle. ... Icicle is the name of the largest ice yacht ever built. ... An ice yacht or ice boat is a vehicle for travel over frozen lakes and sea, driven by a sail. ... This article is about water ice. ... Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. ...

Icicles can pose both safety and structural dangers. Ice hanging from buildings may break away and fall and pierce the flesh of pedestrians below or cause damage to other objects below. In addition, ice is relatively heavy and the tendency of icicles to form on overhangs, eaves, and gutters may cause more stress on those structures than they were designed to bear, causing them to break or tear away from the building. Similarly, icicle buildup on trees may cause branches to break. Icicles will eventually melt.

See also

• Ice
• Ice dam
• Ice spike
• Rusticle
• Stalactite

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