Natural Snowballs

Here are some pictures of an amazing natural phenomenon, wind created snowballs!

The conditions were absolutely perfect, wet snow and gale force winds. 

(20 MPH sustained and 40 MPH gusts!)

I feel extremely privileged to have been able to photograph and examine them first hand.

I hope you all enjoy!

This is our backyard. The snowballs pictured range from 3 to 10 inches in diameter.

This one is almost a foot across!

Countless 3-5 inch ones, with giants scattered here and there.

Like these. They are about 1 1/2 feet across and a foot in diameter.

This one is really big! 16 inches or so in diameter. It came all the way down the hill!

From up on top of the Longstretch. It was really weird to be stumbling around in twenty mile-per-hour winds with snowballs rolling around pushed only by the wind.

The pasture across from the Farmhouse.

THIS ONE IS HUGE!!! almost three feet wide, I'd say. it was probably at least 18 inches across.

All the snowballs  had concave ends, because they started as a very small one and
were pushed in just one direction.

This one ran into the electric fence, and got thoroughly dismantled.

Even the driveway had snowballs all over the place!!

The trail this one left is huge!

This is the biggest one so far!