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A Calving Iceberg Was Caught on Video From Someone’s Backyard

This whole thing seems very Canadian.
Rachel Pick
New York, US

A Newfoundland man recorded an unusual thing to see from one's backyard: the calving of an iceberg.

Jason Griffiths was hanging out enjoying the view from his parents' bayside home in King's Point, Newfoundland when he captured the iceberg cracking and breaking, causing large waves to roll ashore. He can be heard yelling at his wife to "get off the beach!" as the cold waves roll in. (She was fine.)

There have apparently been a lot of sightings of icebergs in King's Point this summer. Ice from further north regularly breaks off and floats down into Green Bay, where the summer sun melts it enough to cause further calving, seen here.

It's not unusual for glaciers and icebergs to break up in the summer months—the ice caps just usually rebuild themselves in winter. So it's not clear if the uptick in King's Point 'berg sightings is due to global warming, or a current pattern that is sending more polar runaways into Green Bay.