Wind rollers have you ever seen these before?

[Zymurgy]

I thought I had seen everything weather can throw at you, but saw these on the way home from town today. They have a name, wind rollers. I guess they can get quite big. I have never seen them before. They are a pretty cool sight to see in person.

 

[vdk2010]

We have them here too. Öh, had them. 2 or 3 years ago, when we had the last "real" winter....

Funny natural spectacle!

 

[Ironwolf]

Wow !! :monkeydance: they are like frozen tumbling tumbleweeds or little snowman eggs :sSp_snowman2:

I have never seen anything like that before.... I need to get out more often...

 

[patrick66]

I've seen those in Nebraska. For several miles along US81, there were hundreds of these that looked like miniature hay rolls. Very cool.

 

[Stormer]

Never seen them before in my entire life but they're all over Columbus. Just crazy, I was driving around today & I was like WTF? At first I thought someone had done it until I drove some more & realized that there are thousands of them.

 

[Zymurgy]

More cool pictures. These were taken on The Ohio State Campus in Columbus today.

 

[Wildaugust]

Never seen them before in my entire life but they're all over Columbus. Just crazy, I was driving around today & I was like WTF? At first I thought someone had done it until I drove some more & realized that there are thousands of them.

Winter time "Crop Circles"! :alien: :laughing1:

 

[Stormer]

Winter time "Crop Circles"! :alien: :laughing1:

You think it might be a big hoax?

The wind kept me up quite a bit of the night & I was expecting to have to clean up more snow like I did all weekend. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw these crazy things though. And the even better news is that none of the snow drifted so no more cleanup.

 

[53ryder]

First time I've ever seen those. Living near Seattle/Tacoma for 51 years, we don't get a whole lot of snow or wind that drastic.


Glenn

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Say they happen at real specific wet snow not too wet pretty neat though

 

[detmatt]

That's a first for me too and very kool.

 

[72Fury]

I have never seen those as well.

 

[oldtinkerer]

seen some of these things years ago in southern manitoba did`nt pay much attention to them then but they are for real

 

[Zymurgy]

A couple more before they are gone. These where taken in the open field where I have been working this week. The first one was one of the biggest in the field about 18 inch or so.

 

[polara71]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AREt29WNzG4


I presume this is near you Mike?

 

[70bigblockdodge]

That's some really nice ones the best ones I saw where on a frozen pond off 422 by parkman oh.

 

[Zymurgy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AREt29WNzG4


I presume this is near you Mike?

That footage was shot further north than me. It was pretty much wide spread over Ohio.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

They are basically littering Oh at least till Friday afternoon.

 

[detmatt]

I don't get how that's done with no footprints....

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Aliens......