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 was reported with heavy snow that blanketed Buffalo, N.Y., in November, for example.Residents reported lightning flashes in the sky as snow piled up on the ground. If it’s uncommon ...

Thundersnow can develop in three ways. Sometimes thundersnow forms like a typical thunderstorm along a powerful arctic cold front. Warm air bubbles and rises in the atmosphere, creating a thunderstorm ...

KDKA First Alert Meteorologist Mary Ours joined us to discuss your questions, which included thundersnow, lake effect snow and more. Ukrainian government sells T-shirts with viral Zelensky quote ...

Interestingly, cloud-to-ground thundersnow events in nor’easters are oftentimes man-made. That’s because the positive charge in lower regions of the snow cloud is broad and diffuse, often too ...

Experts say that thundersnow—a phenomenon when thunder and lightning occur during a snowstorm—tends to bring heavier accumulations. Photograph by David Degner, The Washington Post/Getty Images.

When Steiger first began researching thundersnow around 2009, he found that most lightning occurred over water, or within 10 miles of shore. But that pattern began to shift in the ensuing years.

Intense bands of lake-effect snow are the most common way we experience thundersnow in Canada.. With towering clouds and very heavy snowfall rates, these convective bands of lake-effect snow can ...