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Snow rollers?

Jassy

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This link was sent to me in an email...prettty strange but cool looking I think? so has anyone else ever seen these???

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/otx/photo_gallery/snow_rollers.php
 

Justin

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thats the craziest thing i seen all day. every year we seem to have something similar to that happen in a hay field after the hay has been cut for a couple days, but never shaped quite as nice as those snow bales.
 

Faster horses

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When we lived in Wyoming we had a big alfalfa field east of the house.
We got up one morning to find snowballs rolled up by the wind. It was eerie. They were shaped different than these, however.

I have NEVER seen them again and that was many moons ago.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Never seen any, but have heard of them. Why I have heard of em, I have no idea.....livin where I do LOL Can't remember who it was talkin about them.....

That's perdy cool tho.
 

Ben H

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Never seen that here, when I saw the subject snow rollers I thought I was going to see the horse drawn things they used to use to pack roads.
 

Silver

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Cool pics. I've only seen this happen twice and neither time where the rolls as big as that, mayby 5 or 6 inches tall at the most. Must have been pretty windy there.
 

Hanta Yo

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A friend of ours up in Alaska sent us the same pics a few days ago via email.

Under the right conditions we've gotten them a couple times....not shaped like round bales but shaped like balls and they can get pretty big depending on how hard the wind is and how deep the snow is.
 

mwj

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I had them one year in the orchard. I would have blamed it on kids if there would have been tracks :lol: It was before many folks had computers so it took some time to figure it out.
 

per

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The round bale style are very cool. We have had the snow ball type ones a few times. Kinda eerie to look out and see natures snowball making. The first ones I saw were before the Internet as well but that night on TV they had a report on some so information technology saved the day.
 

jigs

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http://www.superiorne.com/archive/archivefp.htm

here are a few of the ones we got here this past winter.....

got to scroll down to snow rollers


also a few of my daughter in the cross country meet...but due to stalkers, I ain't gonna point her out!
 
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