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Sastrugi snow formation in Colorado. Sastrugi are ridges of snow formed when wind erodes and drifts the snow. (Photograph courtesy of Ken Knowles, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder.)


Sastrugi snow formation in Colorado