snow rollers
We had a winter phenomena happen near here last night that I had never seen before. It's called "snow rollers" and it happens when the top layer of snow is frozen hard, then a warmer wet layer falls on it with the right amount of steady strong wind blowing across it. It picks up the wet snow and starts it rolling and makes a tube of it. The first snow (in the center) is usually the most fragile so it blows out as the outer layers get stronger and more condensed. Dave saw them early this morning up by Franklin High School when he and Sebby went somewhere and then we all went out together so I could get pictures this afternoon. They might have been better in the morning but you can still get the idea from the photos I think.
a hole
herd of rollers
many
you can see the pathway of this one
I think this would be so amazing to see first hand. You can see from the first picture that they aren't all traveling on a parallel path. They are each on their own path, going in the same general direction but crisscrossing each other as they go.
a hole
herd of rollers
many
you can see the pathway of this one
I think this would be so amazing to see first hand. You can see from the first picture that they aren't all traveling on a parallel path. They are each on their own path, going in the same general direction but crisscrossing each other as they go.