26 January 2026

Pondering these icicles

Lots of these photos on the internet today, for obvious reasons (this one from The Atlantic).  Am I correct in assuming that the lengths of the icicles on the lower power line would form a normal distribution (a bell-shaped curve without any skew?)  Eyeballing it seems to suggest this, but is it fair to assume the shape of the distribution?  I obviously don't have time to make the measurements...

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