Kansas always has a few tricks up its sleeves when it comes to the weather. This natural phenomenon doesn’t happen all the time, but if you catch it by chance, it’s a beautiful sight.
Imagine it’s a snowy winter’s morning with nothing out of the ordinary for a Kansas day. Suddenly, you see something that you may have never seen before.
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Have you ever seen something like this before? It’s most common in large open snow fields with lots of wind, and a little bit of a slope helps as well.
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These rolled snow tubes are aptly called “snow rollers” and they form in a really cool way.
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For these to happen, all these conditions must happen. First, you’ll need a field full of undisturbed snow with a thin layer of wet snow on top, with ice or powdery snow underneath. Then, the wind does all the work, blowing bits of snow along to collect more layers, just like making a snowman.
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Sometimes they happen when snow drops off of a tree or building and rolls down a hill, but we all know how hard it is to find a good hill. Isn’t this cool? It’s like nature’s little snowmen.
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With all these beautiful things that happen during Kansas winters, we’re glad we don’t get devastating blizzards like we did way back in the day.
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