Storm leaves weather phenomenon on front lawns
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 | 12:22 PM AT
CBC News
The winter storm passing through Fredericton has left a unique weather phenomenon on many people's yards.
Several residents in New Brunswick's capital region awoke to find giant snowballs in their yards Tuesday morning.
Several households in Fredericton found these giant snowballs, known as snow rollers, on their front lawns on Tuesday morning.
The formations are known as snow rollers, said Johanna Wagstaffe, a meteorologist at CBC's weather centre.
"It's basically like forming a snowball that you'd make a snowman with, but it's done naturally," Wagstaffe said.
Chunks of snow are blown along the ground by gusty winds and accumulate until they look like a link of snowballs, she said.
Conditions have to be perfect for the cylindrical and hollow snow rollers to form, Wagstaffe said.
Fredericton is the only area in the country to report their formation as the winter weather system has rolled across Canada over the last several days, she said.
