Thundersnow, also known as a winter thunderstorm, happens when a snowstorm is accompanied by thunder and lightning. As of Monday (Jan. 6) morning, the phenomenon has been reported across much of ...

Answer: A reader recently asked us if thunder ever occurs with snowfall. It turns out that “thundersnow” does, in fact, occur occasionally in very intense winter storms. Clouds and precipitation ...

The display included thunder and lightning, wind and rain. Neither thunder nor lightning seems commonplace on any winter day. On Tuesday, the two gave a rare and vivid show of atmospheric force ...

While this makes the direct threat from thunder and lightning in the UK low, extreme weather creates many dangers that may pose a risk even after a storm has passed like damaged walls, bridges or ...

Thunder and lightning are much more common in warm-season storms because of convection, the upward motion of air that helps produce thunderstorms. It's fairly rare to have convection within a winter ...

For most of us the only extreme weather we’re likely to encounter is thunder and lightning. We’ve all heard thunder and seen lightning, but believe it or not it’s actually possible to see ...