(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 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 ...

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 ...

Friday's storm brought an unusual weather combination to metro Detroit — thundersnow. The rare phenomenon happens when thunder and lightning accompany snowfall. Let's take a closer look at ...

"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 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A brief round of thundersnow made its way through the Pittsburgh area overnight as a winter storm system arrived in western Pennsylvania. Snow arrived in the Pittsburgh area ...