The beach is always a place full of surprise and frivolity along with the possibility for awesome memories, but there are certainly plenty of surreal moments to be found if you're there at the right time.

Case in point: hail in Seaside at top and in the second photo. What looks like snow on the beach here is a large downpour of icy hail in January of 2005. The town on this day is covered in a wet, dirty shade of white, thanks to this odd, rare event on the coast.

Below, the north Oregon coast town is covered in snow in 2007.

See An Astounding Snow on Oregon Coast - including snow in Seaside from 2019