On the morning after the infamous Christmas Eve blizzard, interesting snow effects abounded in many places, including sastrugi: dune-like, wind-formed ripples in snow. This example developed from windblown snow originating off-road, but only after the street had been stripped down to the icy underlying layer that itself had formed from compaction and melting of earlier snow. It all made for a fascinating array of frigid formations seldom found in central Oklahoma.
Norman OK (25 Dec 9) Looking SERoad Ripples
On the morning after the infamous Christmas Eve blizzard, interesting snow effects abounded in many places, including sastrugi: dune-like, wind-formed ripples in snow. This example developed from windblown snow originating off-road, but only after the street had been stripped down to the icy underlying layer that itself had formed from compaction and melting of earlier snow. It all made for a fascinating array of frigid formations seldom found in central Oklahoma.
Norman OK (25 Dec 9) Looking SE