Snow rollers?

[Jassy]

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

 

[rustynail]

looks like somebody had the round baler out in the snow.

thats pretty wild looking

G3

 

[per]

Pretty good production in that snow field.

 

[cowsense]

We've had them form.........only seen them a couple of times & ours weren't near as big as those!

 

[Justin]

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]

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.

 

[Blkbuckaroo]

Very strange :shock:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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!