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.

NOAA says the “ingredients” for thundersnow are similar to a thunderstorm: moisture, instability, and a lifting mechanism. In the case of thundersnow, the phenomenon occurs when there is ...

Thundersnow – a thunderstorm that produces snow instead of rain – is sometimes reported during winter storms. But how does this weather oddity occur?

The weather event is so rare that meteorologist Jim Cantore can barely contain his excitement when he's recorded in viral videos witnessing it.

Until recent decades, we didn’t know if the phenomenon was even real. Now scientists are peeling back why thunder and lightning can happen in a snowstorm.

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 ...

A weather spotter reported thundersnow, which is when lightning and thunder occurs during a snowstorm. The weather phenomenon will return to the Southland on Saturday.

As Michigan faces a winter storm Friday, community members reported thundersnow in the region. Here's a look at how that happens.

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.

Buffalo was walloped by 3-inch-per-hour snowfall rates and even “thundersnow” Thursday night as a historic lake-effect storm system bore down on the region. By 10 p.m., 6 inches of snow had ...