I wanna run- but dont have nowhere to go- anybody else here in Chi-city?

It's not common but it's not that uncommon either.
If it weren't snowing, it would be raining, so where would you go then?

We get thunder & lightning sometimes when we get really bad blizzards here. Last time I recall it happening was almost two years ago. We ended up getting over a foot of snow.

SUPRMAN said:

hide under the bed-

this is the first time I have experienced loud thunder and lightening in the dead of a chicago winter snow storm. its almost like something fell from the sky-

scary

Thundersnow is my most favoritest thing in the whole world!

The same thing that causes thunder in a rainstorm causes thunder in a snowstorm - vertical development (convection) in a storm cell.

To get vertical development, you need colder air overlying a warmer layer, plus a lifting mechanism (a front, a jet stream or both). In winter, the air tends to be uniformly cold and the jet stream tends to be farther south than the typical northern hemisphere storm track.

Occasionally, however, everything lines up atmospherically and you get thundersnow!

Genesia said:

and see- I thought it was the end of the world....

Evvy said:

Nah. Just weather.

I was listening to the news earlier, and they mentioned the possibility of thunder and lightning here (NYC/NJ) this evening with the heavy snow we're experiencing. They even made a reference to Chicago!

Evvy said:

Being from Oklahoma where weather is the most random and weird as anywhere in the world...Yes I've seen that during snow. I remember it quite well. It was the winter of 1994. I left work early because the whole damn city was closing down with this horrible snow storm that was coming down. Throughout the whole day, there was thunder. In all my years of living in Oklahoma, it was the first time I had ever seen that. There was lightning reported in some areas as well.

;hah: I thought I was losing my mind last night. I heard the thunder. I didn't see the lightning. I thought it was about to be 'quake part two up in here. I remember hearing thunder during the Winter a looong time ago when I was about 10 or 11. My gramma didn't believe me and said it was a freight truck hitting a pothole.

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