Project Life - Picture Thundersnow

[chiefdragon]

As I was sitting and watching TV tonight the news guy came on and said that Delaware was in for Thundersnow. Just could not believe this and had to look up want it was and here is what we found out it is a "rare kind of thunderstorm with snow falling as the primary precipitation instead of rain. It typically falls in regions of strong upward motion within the cold sector of an extratropical cyclone, where the precipitation consists of ice pellets rather than snow." Needless to say we have had lighting here, thunder and now at 10 pm I can say that we are having a thundersnow.

So with that being said and in 35 years never hearing of this (and neither had my parents)....my picture today just had to be the next weather report where the guy was talking all about thundersnow...you never know when you are going to learn something new.

 

[jparc]

We had this today. It was little weird to see flashes of lightening and to hear thunder while it was snowing!

 

[Lisa]

The southwestern part of CT had thundersnow as well, bizarre!

 

[bearbear]

They were calling for thundersnow here also. I didn't see or hear anything

 

[czycropper]

We got some here in Central NJ. My dog (hates thunderstorm) was pacing most of the night! It really was weird, now we're having to shovel about 12 inches of snow after shoveling 4 inches yesterday afternoon!

 

[wdwmickey]

We get thundersnow occasionally here in the Denver area. What I find even stranger than that (since I've seen it several times) is snowing/raining while it's sunny.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

WE have them in Indiana too... I had never heard of them before... I was living on my own w/ my DD17..... well, I had to call my BFF from home and her DH to make sure they were seeing what I was seeing and hearing because I thought I was losing it.. being a new mom and my first home on our own.....

Isn't it an amazing sight?

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I saw it on the TV show Last American Cowboy. They are in Montana

It's pretty cool looking!

 

[chiefdragon]

I am so glad it was not so strange, but it was neat to see last night. The cats were going nuts all night (something they hate thunder). I am happy to report though we only got about 6" which is much better then we thought we would get (12").

 

[fireplug]

We had one a few years back while our son was playing a high school football game. It was snowing harder than I have ever seen!

Squid

 

[pjlla]

I experienced this once when living in MA.... didn't know it had a name! That would make a great POTD for your book!.......P