Shocked residents have seen streaks of lightning illuminating the sky while icy snow plummeted to the ground — a phenomenon known as thundersnow.
Thundersnow is a dramatic weather phenomenon which, as its name implies, is simply snow accompanied by thunder and lightning. It only occurs when specific weather ingredients come together — usually in big and intense storms.It is relatively rare, and when it occurs, it typically only produces flashes within clouds. The muffling effect of snow makes thundersnow tough to hear even if it occurs.
That scenario is tough to get in the wintertime; instead, thundersnow typically develops in one of three ways — all of which are rare. It can also form in lake-effect snowstorms, primarily only off Lakes Erie and Ontario. The pair are among the shallowest of the Great Lakes, allowing them to heat up more quickly during the summertime. Into October and November, water temperatures remain mild — currently around 50 degrees — even as air in the teens and twenties blows along it.In the case of Lake Erie, frigid air traversing the 240-mile fetch of the lake encountered pockets of air warmed by the lake itself.
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