Or maybe this is just something nobody in San Diego knows about...

March 20, 2007 9:14 PM

You think you've seen it all and then you see Snow Donuts
posted by Citizen Premier (23 comments total)

I LOLD.
posted by hermitosis at 9:19 PM on March 20, 2007

There's nothing they can't do.
posted by jimmythefish at 9:25 PM on March 20, 2007

Now if only Mother Nature can use those Snow Donuts to build me a fort.
posted by Kibbutz at 9:26 PM on March 20, 2007

I've seen snow donuts! I never knew they were a natural phenomenon... Very interesting.
posted by amyms at 9:27 PM on March 20, 2007

You know, I did effectively think I'd seen it all, which is why I stopped buying the Fortean Times about a year back (that, and it'd gone up to $10 an issue), but I'd never seen this before! Thanks!

I wonder if William Corliss has documented this under another name.
posted by kimota at 9:48 PM on March 20, 2007

I guess I should share the wikipedia link before somebody calls me out.
posted by Citizen Premier at 9:55 PM on March 20, 2007

Looks like I picked the wrong week to tear out my eyeballs.
posted by notmydesk at 10:02 PM on March 20, 2007 [4 favorites]

mmm....

Donuts.
posted by gergtreble at 10:03 PM on March 20, 2007

You think you've seen it all...

That's a filthy lie and you know it.
posted by The Card Cheat at 10:08 PM on March 20, 2007

Now I've seen everything!
posted by joelf at 12:31 AM on March 21, 2007

No, leprechauns. Did you see the Utah photo on the wikipedia page? Hundreds and hundreds of leprechauns did that.
posted by lastobelus at 2:52 AM on March 21, 2007

ok, this is the funniest nature photo I have ever seen.
posted by lastobelus at 2:57 AM on March 21, 2007

"ok, this is the funniest nature photo I have ever seen."
posted by lastobelus

That is Mother Nature hilariously undignified, lastobelus!
Thanks.
posted by Jody Tresidder at 5:42 AM on March 21, 2007

I saw these once in Cincinnati.

I wrote the Wikipedia page.
posted by obvious at 7:39 AM on March 21, 2007

I saw these once in Battleground, Washington, where I lived in 2nd and 3rd grade. They were neat. But the blackened, still-intact dome of Mt. St. Helens as viewed from my backyard was more impressive.
posted by mds35 at 7:45 AM on March 21, 2007

Yeti cock rings.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:13 AM on March 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

d'oh!
posted by baker dave at 9:37 AM on March 21, 2007

Damn that's cool. I still haven't seen layered snow at all.
posted by brundlefly at 10:36 AM on March 21, 2007

Finally, low calorie donuts!
posted by melangell at 11:14 AM on March 21, 2007

Looks like I picked the wrong week to tear out my eyeballs.

Did you hear about the guy who tore out his eyeball and found it was oedipal?
posted by Citizen Premier at 12:04 PM on March 21, 2007 [2 favorites]

Damn, I grew up in a place with a hell of a lot of snow, but I never saw that.
posted by jacquilynne at 4:29 PM on March 21, 2007

I've spent most of my life with too damn much winter for half the year. Never saw a nature-made snow donut before.
posted by five fresh fish at 6:36 PM on March 21, 2007

With a Cub Scout filling.
posted by jeffkay at 1:27 PM on March 22, 2007