Winter storm causes rare phenomenon in upstate New York

Mother Nature put on a rare show in an upstate New York town Jan. 22.

A winter storm packing strong winds and newly fallen snow caused dozens of “snow rollers” to appear overnight in the Rochester suburb of Chili, according to a local video.

Snow rollers are nature’s own snowballs that grow ever larger as wind, gravity and very specific weather conditions cause these winter equivalents to tumbleweeds to start rolling around…

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