When there's strong enough convection, along with plenty of moisture, a winter storm can produce thundersnow. During a winter ...

(WLUK) -- Thundersnow, a rare and powerful winter ... As snow falls heavily, ice crystals and snowflakes rub together, creating static electricity -- much like rubbing a balloon on your hair.

Areas of thundersnow are typically associated with extremely heavy snowfall rates because the extra lift in such snowbands enhances the production of snowflakes. So, for weather enthusiasts ...

Thundersnow lightning is infrequent compared to summer thunderstorms; it is also usually cloud-to-cloud and not cloud-to-ground. Lightning is brighter and blue due to the light reflecting off ...

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 ...

When Patrick Market began researching thundersnow more than two decades ago, he received two very different kinds of responses. “One type was, ‘Thank you for doing this, I knew that I’d seen ...

“Thundersnow events usually bring infrequent ... Is it true what everyone says that no two snowflakes are the same? “I am fascinated by the diversity of appearance in snow crystals,” he ...

But sometimes it’s a flash high above the surface that really steals the show. Vivid bouts of thundersnow are a rare but beautiful phenomenon that some folks are lucky to experience during the ...

Thundersnow and thundersleet are pretty rare ... Snow and a wintry mix have developed across the region. Even "hamster-size" snowflakes were reported at the National Weather Service Office ...

"Absolutely wild scenes across Copenhagen, NY, and multiple cases of thundersnow," storm chaser Aaron Rigby said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. A squall kicks up along the waterfront ...

With the large snowflakes, we may also see some thundersnow. It's exactly what it sounds like: snow accompanied by thunder. Thundersnow is a relatively rare phenomenon because of the environmental ...