Since we have been having spring like weather lately and there is a storm tonight it got me wondering. Why do you not have thunder and lightening during storms in the winter? Does heat have anything to do with it?
2007-02-24 13:55:13 · 13 answers · asked by Sam 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Hmmm. Maybe I've just never noticed.
2007-02-24 14:08:41 · update #1
I live in MS. We dont have snow. Thats why I've never seen that. ;o)
2007-02-25 22:56:38 · update #2
We're in the middle of a blizzard here in Madison Wisconsin and I just saw lightning about 10 minutes ago and heard thunder too.
There's less moisture in the air when it is cold.
2007-02-24 13:58:34 · answer #1 · answered by Vegan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes you do get lightning strikes during winter storms. It is called thundersnow. It doesn't happen often because the surface air is colder than in the summer so there is less lift, which means the clouds aren't as tall, which means no lightning. Sometimes conditions are just right and you can get thunder and lightning during snow storms. It happens more often with lake- or sea-effect snow than with normal snow storms.
2007-02-24 22:08:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can have thunder storms in the winter. Yes heat and cold next to each other create a charge and when it discharges it causes lightning and the noise of that happening in such A large open space makes the noise seem so large.
2007-02-24 23:58:00 · answer #3 · answered by Jerry G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible to have thunder and lightning during winter storms. The lightning is as a result of electric charge separation in the storm clouds.
2007-02-24 22:38:22 · answer #4 · answered by bajan_75 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does in lightning and thunder during winter storms just not as much as in the summer time.
2007-02-25 20:39:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live near Milwaukee, I heard the thunder last night from the same storm that Vegan did in Madison. I thought/hoped it was actually raining instead.
2007-02-24 22:05:25 · answer #6 · answered by momof2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes a combo of warm and cool air and also day time heating from the sun to spark thunderstorms. In the winter you don't get that kind of heating or that much sun but on very rare times it can happen.
2007-02-24 22:36:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
thunder and lightening in chicago with snow today feb 25 2007
2007-02-25 02:57:14 · answer #8 · answered by Stan the man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard thunder in the winter as well.
2007-02-24 22:00:17 · answer #9 · answered by BP 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, sometimes you have thunder and lightning while it's snowing. They call it thunder snow. I've seen it before.
2007-02-25 00:05:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋