Snowman buds

[davidlpf]

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This afternoon before going to work I saw a lot of little of snowballs throughout the backfield. When showed the pictures around work thet told me that sometimes when snow is blowing around and gets caught by a small piece of grass and it snowballs from there. Some people call them snowman buds.

[Bignose]

I've heard them called snow rollers more often. Here's some pictures of some big ones:

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

[KaiYeves]

That's cool! I've never seen anything like that around here.