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.

When Patrick Market began researching thundersnow more than two decades ago, he received two very different kinds of responses. “One type was, ‘Thank you for doing this, I knew that I’d seen ...

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.

The phenomenon, known as thundersnow, occurs when a thunderstorm produces snow instead of rain. The weather event is so rare that Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore can barely contain his ...

Now, as if to add an exclamation point to the freakiness of this week’s weather, there has been thundersnow in the Southland — and more could be on the way. A weather spotter near the Devore ...

Thundersnow, it’s called, and eastern Lake Ontario is one of the best places in the world to experience it, according to Scott Steiger, professor of meteorology at the State University of New ...

Friday evening's storm brought an unusual weather combination to metro Detroit — thundersnow. The rare phenomenon happens when thunder and lightning accompany snowfall. Let's take a closer look ...

Western New York is bracing for a historic wallop of snow that could dump 4 to 6 feet on the region through Sunday — including possible “thundersnow,” forecasters said. Gov. Kathy Hochul and ...