Icy rain creates 'ghost apples' in Kent County

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By: 24 Hour News 8 web staff

KENT COUNTY, Mich. (WOOD) — The freezing rain created an unusual phenomenon in the Fruit Ridge area of Kent County: "ghost apples."

Andrew Sietsema sent in photos of the hollow ice apples to ReportIt late Wednesday night. He said he came across the interesting formations while pruning apple trees earlier that day.

Sietsema said the freezing rain coated rotting apples, creating a solid icy shell around them. When he pruned the trees, they would shake, causing many of the frozen apples to fall off, ice and all. However with a few of them, the mush slipped out of the bottom of the ice casing, leading to a "ghost apple."

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[3catwoman3]

1. That is one of the most interesting things...

...I've ever seen.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. Ahhh...

For the ever popular, low calorie, low fat, gluten free Ghost Apple Pie.

[magicarpet]

3. Fructose free apples...

An apple a day,.. keeps the icebox at bay...

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Interesting. nt

[Flaleftist]

5. cool

I wondered how that is possible. The last part of the article answered my question.


Sietsema the temperature provided the perfect recipe: it was cold enough for the ice to remain, but warm enough for the apples to turn to complete mush, since apples have a lower freezing point than water.

[dem in texas]

6. Amazing!

Thanks for posting the pics of ghost apples. I save' off the pics, will look at them in July when it's 100+ degrees.

[FakeNoose]

7. Wow, so cool!

Sounds like these were created under unique circumstances though. I've never seen anything like this, and I've seen a lot of apple trees.

[KayF]

8. the apples got Raptured

[SergeStorms]

15. OH NOES!

And now the evanHELLical xtians are hopping mad because Dog favors apples over them! They were supposed to be the first to go, not some damned fruit that caused the entire problem in the Garden of Eden in the first place!

There's going to have to be some serious praying over this anomaly.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Ain't nature grand?

[denbot]

10. Yet another thing you don't see, or even conceive of, growing up in So Cal.

The wife and I are bouncing between. WI and the Chicago area and still marvel at the ice coated trees.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Growing up in the Phila area

was strange since the temp was always right between snow and rain all the time. It sucked being a kid who wanted to hear that school was closed in the morning when you listening for your school closing number on the radio. The best thing was waking up, pulling the shade up and seeing a sparkly shine covering everything...tree branches were like sparkly lace in the early morning sunlight.

[True Blue American]

12. My Cherry tree and surroundings looked like a Winter Wonderland.

With the fog and ice everything was white.6 degrees. Next day it was almost 60, then back down again.

Yesterday morning my car locks were frozen on one side. One hour at the Y, car was ice.

[marigold20]

13. Very cool!

Thanks for posting.

[SergeStorms]

14. Nature does it again.

Mother Nature comes up with the most extraordinary creations! The minds of humans can't hold a candle to our Earth Mother.