It's the same thing as a regular storm, only frozen, so how come there is not lighting or thunder?
2006-10-02 14:46:09 · 13 answers · asked by scasta86 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
there can be thunder during a snowstorm. It is rare when it happens but it can.
2006-10-02 14:48:46 · answer #1 · answered by Big-Daddy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the southcentral mountains of New Mexico, I have heard thunder during a snow storm.
2006-10-02 14:53:40 · answer #2 · answered by beez 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live where it snows 9 months out of the year and we have had thunder and lightening during a snow storm.
2006-10-02 14:54:28 · answer #3 · answered by miamac49616 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can happen, yet it is rare because the lightning that is need for the thunder needs a mixture of events: low barometric pressure,winds moving clouds and water particles together, among other things that often do not happen in a snow storm
2006-10-02 14:52:40 · answer #4 · answered by snoutcounter 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thunder can occur in a snowstorm... It usually happens in an event called a convective snowstorm.....
2006-10-03 15:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by Mike B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bear in mind interpreting an editorial indicating that thundersnow is possibly plenty greater consumer-friendly then we understand because of the fact the snow the two muffles the record and the sight of the lightening, exceptionally because it is often concurrent with rather heavy blizzard. From my 2d source "Can there be lightning for the period of a blizzard? Lightning is frequently linked with thunderstorms, and consequently is known to be a spring and summer season experience. yet lightning does ensue for the period of iciness, or perhaps for the period of heavy snowfalls and blizzards. iciness lightning seems to be strangely efficient, linked with loud and long thunderclaps. specially circumstances linked snowfalls can attain 3 inches an hour. a guy replaced into struck by using lightning for the period of a snow fall in Minneapolis for the period of March of 1996. he remains alive...and extremely questioned. " All i comprehend is the 1st and basically time I suggested it ensue replaced into virtually 30 years in the past in Southeast Alaska. on the time i replaced into blind to the importance, and it replaced into so unusual that i presumed it replaced into some hallucination a school mate and that i had on the way homestead - yet because of the fact it scared the crap out persons the two it had to have been genuine. possibly, the upward thrust in occurrence of such a phenomena could ok tied to international warming, yet first there could be a could desire to definitively tutor that there has been a upward thrust.
2016-10-18 09:32:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most effiecent way to get lightning is to have liquid raindrops seperate + and - charges in the atmosphere (lightning the strikes to balance things again). In a snow storm the water in all frozen and therefore there is little charge seperation and no lightning.
2006-10-02 15:05:17 · answer #7 · answered by buckj04 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For the same reason that not all rain produces thunder..
2006-10-02 14:54:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably has something to do with the ionization of the air. Rain moves electrical charges more efficiently than ice.
2006-10-02 14:49:08 · answer #9 · answered by bonhommecretienne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thunder happens when hot air and cold air collide
2006-10-02 14:54:36 · answer #10 · answered by silver_wolf77 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋