Thundersnow can develop in three ways. Sometimes thundersnow forms like a typical thunderstorm along a powerful arctic cold front. Warm air bubbles and rises in the atmosphere, creating a thunderstorm ...

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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.

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The FOX 11 Storm Chaser captured lightning from thundersnow in 2019. A viewer, Lonna Einberger, shared a video of thundersnow during Winter Storm Amelia in 2021.

As many in the region will have noticed, the storms generating the thundersnow were packed full of snow—Copenhagen saw 58.8 inches of snowfall in 24 hours, according to AccuWeather.

When Steiger first began researching thundersnow around 2009, he found that most lightning occurred over water, or within 10 miles of shore. But that pattern began to shift in the ensuing years.

“Thundersnow events usually bring infrequent lightning flashes and quieter thunder as the heavy snowfall muffles the sound.” Even rarer is a phenomenon known as frost quakes, or cryoseisms.