why does it thunder and lightening when its cold weather?

Answer 1

Truthfully, temp has something to do with the charges in the cloud and the ground. Usually, the sun must HEAT the surface, and as they evaporate and rise turning into watr droplets, if their a lifting mechanism, such as a cold front or ULL and.or the winds are vertical, the updrafts will go straight into the clouds, causing them to billow up into lightning producing clouds, or cumulonimbis as I call them. they bounce into each other pretty rapidly, causing the charges usually. Then of course, if their is too much wamr air above the clouds, the lightning will not strike.

Answer 2

lightening dosent really have to do with the temperature its all about the charges .. a negative and positive charge always want to connect and when there is a positive charge in the clouds and a negative charge on the ground if they connect there is a flash of lightning lightning. the thunder only happenes from the lightning .. the heat pushes so fast on the air around it and creates a ripple effect of air pushing away from the bolt .. when this reaches you the result is the sound you hear .. if there is no sound then it occured too far away for the air to push to you

Answer 3

If I remember my school physics/geography correctly,

Thunder storms happen when cold *and* warm air mix. Cold air falls, hot air rises and generates static electricity which is eventually released as lightning. The thunder is the noise of the air expanding very rapidly during lightning (which is obviously very hot!)

Answer 4

well when it's cold out and there's thunder and lightning it will actually create what we call thundersnow it's when a thunderstorm in the atmosphere and it's snowing out that will create that kind of weather + it had to be at or below 32 degrees

Answer 5

cold and warm air mix together