What a Night! Rude Awakening with Thundersnow

[CallMeKate]

Good morning, All! Okay so it was 1 a.m. and the loudest thunderstorm I've ever heard scared the bedevil out of me. It was raining when I went to bed but then it got colder and caused the relatively rare weather event of thundersnow. This morning it's just a thin layer of the snow but it's probably icy. I'm thinking my fellow state dwellers here probably heard it, too... that's how loud it was! Have ya'll ever experienced thundersnow?

 

[CallMeKate]

Yikes! I just looked up how widespread this was, and it was even doing it in Toronto last night! Okay, that's a really large coverage area, so I'm thinking a lot of us here in the forum experienced it both in US and Canada!

 

[katlupe]

I never heard any thunder (not saying it did not happen) but I got snow, rain (heavy at times) and ice. I heard the snowplow earlier but just looked outside and can't even tell they were here. It is still coming down.

 

[hearlady]

Heavy wind here all night. I was sure my patio cushions would be gone, but they made it.

 

[oldaunt]

That mess came through here 2 nights ago. No snow, but 3 inches of rain. There's no sleeping on thunderstorm nights here, because the dogs fuss and keep me up til its over.

 

[Murrmurr]

That mess came through here 2 nights ago. No snow, but 3 inches of rain. There's no sleeping on thunderstorm nights here, because the dogs fuss and keep me up til its over.

Several feet fell in the Sierras and just about 40 minutes away, Placerville and Jackson are knee-deep in it.

But our snow fell quietly, though.

 

[hollydolly]

Thundersnow ?.. I've never heard of that.. ...we have no snow but the skies look ominous. Apparently we're to get snow back again tomorrow night ...

 

[CallMeKate]

Thundersnow ?.. I've never heard of that.. ...we have no snow but the skies look ominous. Apparently we're to get snow back again tomorrow night ...

It's very strange having loud thunder and rapid lightning with snow falling instead of rain like in a normal thunderstorm.

 

[Pinky]

We had heavy wet snow through the night, and earlier this morning.. It's quite windy right now. Hoping that it doesn't affect the power grid. My eldest sister, who lives west of Toronto, got the lightning last night. We didn't get it in our area.

I guess March is going "out like a lion".

 

[CallMeKate]

We had heavy wet snow through the night, and earlier this morning.. It's quite windy right now. Hoping that it doesn't affect the power grid. My eldest sister, who lives west of Toronto, got the lightning last night. We didn't get it in our area.

I thought of you when I heard that it was bad in Toronto last night, too, @Pinky ...
hard sometimes waiting for the

 

[Lee]

I happened to be looking out the window from the couch when the big clap of thunder and lightning hit. Startled me so back I fell off the couch and cat landed on top of me.

And the robins returned yesterday, they are sure to spot the blueberries I threw out for them. I keep them in the freezer as it never fails, they return right when they should not.

 

[Myrtle]

I was in my 30s the first time I experienced thunder snow. We were putting away Christmas decorations one night. I'm not sure if it's really louder than ordinary thunder or if it just seems so because it's so unexpected. Anyway, it really got our attention and it was a little bit before we accepted that it really was thunder and nothing was exploding.

I've heard it a couple of times since then but it's rare. I'm not positive of this but I think it happens more at night.

 

[JustBonee]

Thundersnow is called a rare event by weather people, but it seems to be getting fairly common now in many states, and Canada.

Thundersnow, or thunder sleet hit our area at Christmas time.

 

[David777]

As a high school sophomore and junior, our family had moved from San Diego to Columbus Ohio. During spring when cold arctic air moved over the Great Lakes, those warmer waters would sometimes develop thunder-snow storms that then as isolated supercells moved south. What always amazed me was how heavy, and wind chaotic such dense snow storms were, with any lightning flashes ampiflied in brightness against such a white landscape and atmosphere.