Why isnt there thunder and lighting in winter?

Question

like during snow storms and stuff

Answer 1

There is! They are called Thundersnows.
In a summer thunder storm, the atmosphere is stacked up like a two-layer cake. The lower layer is full of warm, moist air; the upper layer is icy cold and dry. Because hot air rises, there are soon tremendous updrafts, carrying the warm moisture of the lower layer up into the cold, dry layer. The turbulence of these updrafts creates static electricity as the air masses rub against each other. Thunder and lightning occur when the static electricity discharges in a giant bolt of electricity.

In the winter, the layer of air near the ground is likely to be a lot colder and drier than it is in the summer. It's much harder to get the sharp divisions in the atmosphere that lead to turbulence, static electricity, and thunder. It can happen though, especially near the coast. A thunderstorm can form over the relatively warm and most air over the ocean, then move into the icy atmosphere over the land. When this happens, you'll get a sharp atmospheric division in a snow storm, and you'll get a thunder snow.

Answer 2

Thunder and Lightning can happen at any time or palce including all times of the year. To learn more about thunder and lightning see this link on thunderstorms http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/tstorms/tstorms_intro.htm nad on lightning http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/lightning/lightning_intro.htm
Infact one of the most impresives thunderstorm I ever saw was The St. Louis Blizzard on January 30 & 31 of 1982
during the Evening Hours there were flashes of pinks and greens even blue it was crazy.
See Link
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=01_31_82

The 5 hour duration of thunder snow that was reported at Lambert Field was incredible, with snowfall rates of more than 2 inches per hour.

Answer 3

Ha, but there is, take Manchester, Massachusetts for example, when Jim Cantore was there reporting on the extreme snow there, he was about to go on the air when a bolt of lightning cut through the sky, seconds later thunder was heard. So it is not uncommon to see Thundersnow.

Answer 4

Lightning usually only occurs in storms that have hail. In winter, convection is not usually deep enough for much hail to occur--there is not enough instability (caused by warm moist air at the surface and colder air aloft) and also because the stratosphere is lower in the winter, which acts a lid so that clouds don't grow very tall. However, it is possible for thunderstorms to occur in winter, here in coastal Southern California that is usually the season when our thunderstorms occur, when there is cold air aloft above the relatively warm ocean water. This can also occur over the Gulf Stream.

Answer 5

I'm no expert but I think the thunder and lightening is caused by the warm air. I live in Arizona and you hear a lot about the warm air pressure. And there are a lot of thunder storms.

Answer 6

I have seen lightening and heard thunder during a snow storm. It is rare, but it happens.

Answer 7

Come to Florida in the winter time u will see/hear they still there.

Answer 8

i told her that