With that said, Mother Nature decided to throw people a bone this week by generating some thundersnow, a rare phenomenon where snow falls instead of rain during a thunderstorm. The likelihood of ...

The ingredients for thundersnow are the same as a typical ... occurs when a storm is wintry because they are, by their very nature, cold at both high and low altitudes. But, on rare occasions ...

In the Northeast, and in particular New England, thundersnow can crop up in strong low-pressure systems that brew winter storms known as nor’easters. Due to the spinning nature of these ...

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 ...

Boisterous snowfall rates with whipping winds reveal nature’s raw power on even the ... Vivid bouts of thundersnow are a rare but beautiful phenomenon that some folks are lucky to experience ...

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 ...

For fans of snowstorms, thundersnow is the holy grail of winter weather phenomena. And Thursday's blizzard that struck areas from Philadelphia to southern Maine has featured this relatively rare ...

It's closer this time, and it seems to resound from the sky. This booming may be a rare wintertime phenomenon: thundersnow. While most of us equate thunderstorms with hot, humid summer weather ...

(WLUK) -- Thundersnow, a rare and powerful winter weather event, could make an appearance in Northeast Wisconsin as Winter Storm Cooper approaches. This phenomenon forms similarly to a regular ...

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 ...

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 ...