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To his happy surprise, it turns out this weekend’s storm was a rare “thundersnow” event in which the blizzard was punctuated by occasional bursts of lightning. The Weather Channel itself has ...

(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 ...

Thundersnow was also reported in Oklahoma City and Norman, Oklahoma, early Wednesday morning. A wide swath of the U.S. from the Intermountain West through the Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes ...

For days now, computer models have locked onto the potential for an unusually widespread display of thundersnow -- lightning produced during a snowstorm -- due to the strong lift that this storm ...

The southern side of a classic spring storm is full of danger. High instability and ample wind shear allows for the ...

One more name we can add to the list is "ice pancakes." While not as evocative as "frostflowers" or "steam devils," the name is certainly descriptive. If someone told me that ice pancakes were ...

Wintertime thunder is louder because of how sound travels, which depends on temperature and air density. 3News Meteorologist ...

However, police said that what people were actually hearing was the weather phenomenon known as "thundersnow". Two "extraordinarily loud" thunder claps were heard over the capital just before 05:00.

Swap out the rain, and replace it with snow, and you have what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) describes as the “rare weather phenomenon” known as thundersnow.