The car was in "tornado" from tumbleweed

April 30 on highway at Hanford in Washington state (USA) going about his business journalist Matt McKnight observed an unusual phenomenon — he called it a "tornado of tumbleweeds".

McKnight stopped his car and removed an unusual vortex in the video. While whirling in the dance the dry bushes rolling stone suffered his car — it had been scratched, but under the hood beat the weeds.

Annually the authorities of many States are struggling with the invasion of the tumbleweeds: balls of dried plants, travelling with the wind, roll into the yards and blocking the aisles. However, sometimes they are beneficial — they are used as a backup feed for grazing animals during periods of drought.

Such balls can be obtained from different plants growing in the steppes and deserts and leaves after the death of the round or oval dry education. These dried pieces ride the wind, grabbing twigs, stalks and straws, going in a big lump and scattering seeds. In Siberia they are called "Katun".

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