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Here in Indianapolis we can have them, but they aren't common. If it's not snow, usually it just rains. I have seen thunder and lightning here every month of the year. And a few years back we had a very rare tornado hit in the middle of January. Usually thunderstorm activity dies off in November and picks back up again in March and April.
I've noticed in the past years, that they seem to appear more often here in Northern Germany, than 10 or 20 year ago. In the past ten years there has been usually at least one winter month where thunder could be heard.
During the winter 2011/2012 i could experience thunder in every winter month and the most noticable one was December 2011, where i could hear thunderstorms on six days, this is even rare in the summer months when we get about 3-4 days on average.
Most of the time those thunderstorms are accompanied by rain or hail though, there were only a few events when we had a winter thunderstorm with snow: March 2008 (on Easter Sunday), December 2010 and once in December 2011. I can also recall a snow thunderstorm in December in the 90s though i don't know the exact year anymore which appeared in the middle of the night at 2:30 a.m.
Yes, we get that in Wisconsin and Illinois, especially around Lake Michigan, here's a sample during a blizzard in Chicago.
Yes, in the west of England winter thunder isn't unheard of. We've had thunder or a thunderstorm on 5 occasions in the last 3 winters. The most dramatic of which was on 31st January this year with a heavy hail squall. It was more impressive than many summer thunderstorms I've seen, with frequent overhead lightning/gunshot thunder claps.
We normally get a couple here at some point during the winter...
It is interesting to me how places all over the globe have such different patterns. Parts of NZ get almost all of their tstorms in winter. Seems like the UK gets a few each winter. Here we get just about zero in winter. Years will go by before a winter thunderstorm goes by, but yet we get a lot more annually than the UK (almost all of ours in summer).
They are common in Louisiana. Squall lines often form when a strong cold front passes through and severe weather and even tornadoes are possible. Last year, my city, Alexandria, which is in the central part of the state, had an EF2 tornado on Christmas day. The next day, the high was 38 F. This storm system also brought heavy snow to areas further north, such as Oklahoma and Arkansas. I think Little Rock, AR had 9 inches of snow on Christmas.
I've noticed in the past years, that they seem to appear more often here in Northern Germany, than 10 or 20 year ago. In the past ten years there has been usually at least one winter month where thunder could be heard.
During the winter 2011/2012 i could experience thunder in every winter month and the most noticable one was December 2011, where i could hear thunderstorms on six days, this is even rare in the summer months when we get about 3-4 days on average.
Most of the time those thunderstorms are accompanied by rain or hail though, there were only a few events when we had a winter thunderstorm with snow: March 2008 (on Easter Sunday), December 2010 and once in December 2011. I can also recall a snow thunderstorm in December in the 90s though i don't know the exact year anymore which appeared in the middle of the night at 2:30 a.m.
I'm seeing a thundersnow in the late night / early morning of December 13, 1993 on Weatherspark for Bremerhaven.
Maybe that one?
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Yes, Thundersnow!
