美國有大雪球沖上灘！？

美國有大雪球沖上灘！？

雪球沖上灘
美國密歇根州一個號稱全美最凍沙灘，數百顆每顆估計重達七十五磅的巨型雪球被沖上岸。當地女子奧姆斯特德帶同兩隻小狗到該沙灘散步時，看見一百呎長的沙灘全都是巨型雪球，形容雪球跟她的鬥牛犬一樣高。（互聯網）

http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/c ... 0302/00180_047.html

重75磅超巨雪球沖岸
2013年03月02日(六)
【互聯網】美國密歇根州一個號稱全美最凍沙灘，數百顆每顆估計重達七十五磅的巨型雪球被沖上岸。

http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20130302/00423_028.html

乜事！？ 

Mother Nature's latest stunt: massive lakeshore snowballs
14 hrs ago
What's Trending Sunday, March 3, 12:02 am
Mother Nature is having a grand old time — first she whips up fire tornados and sinkholes, and now she's dotted Lake Michigan's Good Harbor Beach with hundreds of surreal snowballs. Leda Olmsted snapped some pix while out walking her dogs, posted them on Facebook and poof — they're everywhere. Not surprising; the snow boulders, estimated to weigh around 75-pounds each, are awesome. "I thought it was the coolest thing ever," she writes, saying they were as tall as her trendy English bulldog. Scientists say the snowballs form when chunks of ice break away, then the waves pummel them, smoothing and sculpting them into these natural wonders. Respect Gaia. [Source]



http://now.msn.com/leda-olmsted-posts-lake-michigan-snowball-pics

The coolest beach in America: Hundreds of giant ice boulders weighing 75 POUNDS wash ashore in Michigan

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED:16:45 GMT, 28 February 2013| UPDATED: 17:53 GMT, 28 February 2013

These massive snow boulders, estimated to be about 75 pounds, have washed ashore off the coast in northern Michigan.

The stunning snowballs were spotted by a woman who was walking her dog at the Sleeping Bear Dunes national park.

'I thought it was the coolest thing ever especially since I've never seen anything like it,' said Leda Olmstead. 'I have a small English bulldog and they were as tall as her. They were pretty massive.'

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Amazing: These ice boulders, estimated to weigh 75 pounds each, washed ashore in northern Michigan. Officials believe they broke off from hunks of ice floating in Lake Michigan and were rounded into shape by wind and waves

Olmstead said the snow boulders lined the coast for about a 100-foot stretch and there appeared to be hundreds of them.

She was walking her two dogs, Zola and Bula, when she happened upon them.

Olmstead quickly pulled out her camera and took these amazing photographs that were picked up by local media.


Hundreds of the boulders lined the coast of Sleeping Bear Dunes national park when they were spotted by a local woman who was walking her dogs. 

'People think it's so boring and gross up here in the winter but I think it's beautiful,' Olmstead said of northern Michigan. 

While the snow boulders seem like freak occurrences, or from another planet, weather experts provided a straight-forward explanation for how they came to be.

Sleeping Bear Park Ranger Amie Lipscomb told Michigan Live that the ice boulders begin to form - much like a pebble from actual boulders - when hunks of ice break off from the sheets that float in nearby Lake Michigan.

Then, after waves beat down on the pieces of ice, they become rounded and smoothed and are then washed ashore in seemingly perfect boulders.

There have been high-winds in the area of late which contribute to the boulders.

'Along the shoreline, lots of different ice formations form because of the waves crashing along the beach,' Lipscomb said.



What fun: Leda Olmstead and her two dogs enjoy the chance to play around with the massive ice boulders. She said people who have lived in the area their whole lives have never seen anything like it

Olmsted told The Weather Channel, 'Most of the people who've lived here their whole live said they've never seen anything like it either. 

'So it's really cool.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ ... Michigan-beach.html

Care for a snowball fight Massive ice boulders weighing 75 POUNDS have washed 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crMEqdOv8EI

GIANT Ice Boulders Roll onto Shores of Lake Michigan 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd-S9AlSOdA