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Sheets of ice float on the river Oder on Wednesday near Frankfurt an der Oder on the German-Polish border. Influenced by a high pressure system above Siberia, temperatures fell down to minus 14 degrees Celsius in the eastern German region.

Pancake ice drifts down a river in Germany

This phenomenon is known as "pancake ice."

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