Rare self-rolling giant snow balls found in UK (snowroller)

Telegraph ^ | 01/08/10 | Heidi Blake

[MediaMole]

Even the snow is trying to head south for warmer climates.

[Gator113]

Proof that Global warming it real.

Those are cool.

Thanks for posting it.

[hoosierham]

We had this for the only time in my life ,back in ,I think,2004.Even the blizzard of 1977-78 with much deeper snow had no such natural snowmen in this area of the Ohio Valley.

[volunbeer]

I am gobsmacked. :)

[immadashell]

Just another bit of evidence of the effects of global warming. They were actually caused by algore’s windmills.

[Lockbar]

The snow is obviously trying to make contact with an alien life force.

[mikrofon]

[Hexenhammer]

My grandmother mentioned seeing something like that once in Nebraska as a kid. I never saw pics, so I didn’t quite understand what she was talking about. I hadn’t thought about ‘em for years, so it’s quite amazing to see.

[HereInTheHeartland]

It would be nice to see them form around the climate center in East Anglia.

[Westlander]

[Roscoe Karns]

[aruanan]

I’ve seen these in Milwaukee south of the airport. Pieces of snow would come off the edge of a drift at the top of an embankment that flanks the road that cuts across the southern approaches and roll to the bottom making snow disks.

[potlatch]

This is interesting and so neat to see! I was curious as to how they formed the hollow center;

[The top snow layer becomes a bit sticky, and you then need a fairly strong wind. The sticky layer can be peeled off the colder and more powdery snow underneath by the wind forming a roll.]

Not sure who keeps track of strange things like this but pinging a couple of people on it. Thanks for posting TKR!

[Marshall 4x12]

Orange Alert!!!

[JoeProBono]

[potlatch]

Lol, just so it doesn’t roll over you!
Not sure WHO keeps track of these oddities of nature.

[The Great RJ]

I have lived in the northern plains all of my life and have never seen nor heard of this phenomenon. When wind moves the snow up here we call it a blizzard.

[TChad]

Nature reinvents the wheel.

[Right Wing Assault]

http://www.accuweather.com/news-weather-features.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&date=2009-12-24_16:04&month=12&year=2009

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/events/roller/roller.php

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/02/13/tem_snowrollers13.html