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-Ho’s! Apparently they are called snow rolls and this has only happened one other time in the continental United States.
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!!!
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!
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 :(
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!
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.
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.
