Erin and I were just out on a fitness ride, and we rode up to the top of the hill close to our home where there's a cemetery with some good hills for interval training.

The overcast was probably only 100 feet above us, and when I got up to the top I saw that the ground was covered sparsely in these snowy iceballs about the size of a snowball that a little kid would make. Looking around wondering what those could be, I noticed them falling from the sky! It was like loosely formed snowballs. They were hitting the ground with a good *swump* sound. I had visions of being caught in a meteor shower like in that movie "Enemy Mine," and started looking for the closest trees in case this got serious.

I've never seen that kind of snow/iceball precip before. I imagine it could be pretty painful in a small aircraft aloft.

Hmmm..........

...Snowball fight in heaven...? Strange.

Ya that would be a bad day for airplanes thats for sure! I was trying to cover the plane earlier and it was snowing little tiny beeds not flakes.....maybe a smaller version of what you saw!

Another interesting snow phenomenon:

Portland drivers are terrible in the snow. Any transition between dry/wet, wet/snow, or dry/snow and they forget how to think and just crash. The local TV stations were literally broadcasting snow storm related new all day long. You'd think we'd had a natural disaster.

I was driving the rig across the Texas panhandle east of Amarillo at night one year they had a bad snow storm roll through and I noticed a bunch of cars and a few big rigs spun out on the road and into the median. I started to notice that when the cars were driving over the icy bridges, they were panicing then hitting there brakes and then you see them spin out! I must have seen about a half dozen cars do that in about a 20 mile stretch.

Then after about 50 miles it was time for me to take a break for the night. I was more worried about some one hitting me than I was of driving on the icy roads.

1SeventyZ wrote:Another interesting snow phenomenon:

Portland drivers are terrible in the snow. Any transition between dry/wet, wet/snow, or dry/snow and they forget how to think and just crash. The local TV stations were literally broadcasting snow storm related new all day long. You'd think we'd had a natural disaster.

I'll second that. The drivers are crazy when it snows or if they have one of those ice storms. They go like hell and slam on the brakes. If they get stuck on the freeway, they get out and walk away from there rigs. I stay at home and wait for it to get better. Bob

Maybe the undead were hiding behind the tombstones and throwing snowballs at you? Or even less likely, local kids?

Weather does do weird things.