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.

Thundersnow – a thunderstorm that produces snow instead of rain – is sometimes reported during winter storms. Made famous by Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore, whose excitement at hearing and ...

Jan. 6—It's deep in winter, and a nor'easter is dumping snow outside. In between the howling winds you hear a boom! Maybe a heap of snow fell from the roof, you think, or a giant icicle crashed from ...

Winter storms typically come with an eerie silence, but on rare occasions they are accompanied by a roar of thunder. Thunder produced by a snowstorm is a real phenomena. During a spring or summer ...

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 this and ...

New research links cloud top appearance to lightning during a snowstorm. This is an Inside Science story. On Valentine's weekend in 2015, winter storm Neptune pummeled Boston. Weather Channel ...

About 8:10 a.m. Wednesday, as the snowfall in Central Indiana began picking up, the National Weather Service confirmed Johnson and Brown counties has experienced thundersnow. Did anyone happen to hear ...

Don’t be alarmed if you happen to see some flashes of lightning in the sky and hear a few blasts of thunder while it’s snowing Friday morning. Forecasters said there is a possibility of isolated ...