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02/12/2003 07:49:15 PM · #1 |
Woke up this morning and found something very unique!
The wind has to be just right, the temperature has to be just right, and the snow needs to be, you guessed it, just right. I live in the Cincinnati area and we had 30 to 40 mile per hour sustained winds last night. They blew the snow into rolls that look like Ho-Ho̢۪s! Apparently they are called snow rolls and this has only happened one other time in the continental United States.
Check ‘em out!
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02/12/2003 07:53:47 PM · #2 |
| WOW!!!! I live about 5 hours away from you in Southern Illinois and had the same thing. I am new to this area. If I knew they were rare I would have shot a bunch of images of them. Darn!!! |
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02/12/2003 07:58:57 PM · #3 |
Are you sure they aren't giant snow man turds. I should know, I'm Canadian.
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02/12/2003 08:01:54 PM · #4 |
I don't think it's suppossed to go below freezing tonight, so there should be plenty left to shot tommorrow. I also noticed that as they melt a little, they tend to hollow out first, could make for some interesting framing of a winter landscape photo!
Lol @ giant snowman terds! |
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02/12/2003 08:15:15 PM · #5 |
I just saw this on Fox. Amazing. The snow/air/must have to be just right.
Wow. Good shot. Better then what Fox had.
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02/12/2003 08:39:59 PM · #6 |
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02/12/2003 08:53:20 PM · #7 |
thats pretty cool....you should submit it to the weather channel...they have a little photo contest there to.
James
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02/12/2003 09:41:04 PM · #8 |
| Maybe this is the wintertime equivalent of crop circles. |
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02/12/2003 09:48:25 PM · #9 |
I've never heard of such a thing! Truly bizarre! Thanks for sharing.. now..on with you to the tabloids! LOL
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02/12/2003 10:03:30 PM · #10 |
That's so cool! I never saw snow rolls before....lol Thanks for posting!
We had a strange thing happen here in Michigan last night we had lightning with snow. I have the flu so I could not go out and photograph it :( |
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02/12/2003 10:19:05 PM · #11 |
| These are not man made I'm not too far away from Cincinnati and we have them in our neighhood |
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02/12/2003 10:23:47 PM · #12 |
I hear the lightning last night was the second time it has ever happened here during a snowstorm.
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02/12/2003 10:37:28 PM · #13 |
| Wow, snow rolls!? I have never heard of such a thing, thank you soooo much for bringing it to our attention and for the wonderful photos. I love nature! |
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02/13/2003 12:12:31 AM · #14 |
| You could make a "Before and After" shot combining these and those hay rolls I've seen recently... |
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02/13/2003 12:20:15 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by byetko:
I hear the lightning last night was the second time it has ever happened here during a snowstorm. |
Oh, you had thundersnow?!?! I know that's rare, and I've heard it's a little eerie as well since the falling snow muffles the thunder and bounces the sound around.
-Terry
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02/13/2003 01:03:55 AM · #16 |
Where's the creme filling?
(I believei it's from a twinkines or devil dogs commercial ;))
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02/13/2003 03:07:23 AM · #17 |
| Really cool images...I never heard of them before and I'm in that same snow belt just east of you in Pennsylvania...but I do know we have snow drifts that look like white ocean waves coming in...really cool and really pretty if only they weren't so dangerous out along the roadway. |
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02/13/2003 08:43:31 AM · #18 |
I heard on the news last night that the technical term for these is "Snow Rollers." I left the "ers" off, sorry!
I also tried doing some research on them, seems that in the mountians they occur more often, but are still very rare.
I'm hoping they don't all melt today, I'd like to get some more pictures when I get off work. I noticed on the way in that they have all hollowed out! |
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02/13/2003 09:04:45 AM · #19 |
After seeing your pics, my fiance and I were looking these up on the internet. Here's a little more info on Snow Rollers.
//www.weathernotebook.com/transcripts/2002/01/22.html |
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