Thundersnow is exactly what the name suggests – a snowy thunderstorm. But the winter version of a thunderstorm is far less frequent than the spring and summer thunderstorms most people are used to.

But Sebastian Harkema, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who studies thundersnow, says we don’t really know for sure how or why this process occurs in the wintertime. 3:21 ...

A rare winter storm with heavy snow and ice is blasting areas from San Antonio and Houston, Texas, to New Orleans and eastward into parts of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. While it has happened ...

There was even the rarely seen “thundersnow” in parts of Alabama, according to the weather service. According to the weather service Birmingham officially recorded 13 inches of snow, ...

NOAA says the “ingredients” for thundersnow are similar to a thunderstorm: moisture, instability, and a lifting mechanism. In the case of thundersnow, the phenomenon occurs when there is ...

Wednesday’s winter storm provided some Hoosiers with a rare weather phenomenon called “thundersnow.” The occurrence is “something unusual,” according to the National Weather Service.

Residents of Michigan and Toronto reported seeing thundersnow on Friday night, ... Deaths were also reported in Alabama, Mississippi, California and Arkansas.

There have been multiple reports of people hearing thunder while heavy snow was occurring Thursday, Feb. 9. Were they making it up? Nope! It's a very real and unique weather phenomenon.