# Thundersnow!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 28, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095 "2009-03-28T14:58:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/1 "2009-03-28T14:58:10Z")
So today here in good ole’ Tulsa OK we’re experiencing the rather cool phenomenon of “Thundersnow,” which means there’s major snowfall happening along with thunder and lightning. Very strange, and snow is very unusual for us this time of year.
I know there’s other crazy weather happening out there today…blizzards, floods, tornados…what’s happening in your neck of the woods?
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### Author:  [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/2 "2009-03-28T15:01:59Z")
I was in Thundersnow on Wednesday in Billings Montana.
We’re just grey and 40 degrees for the next week. Bleh.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/3 "2009-03-28T16:11:06Z")
We had it a few weeks ago here. 'Twas weird, but cool.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/4 "2009-03-28T16:11:48Z")
Gee, we haven’t had thundersnow since the beginning of the month.:rolleyes: Currently lots of plain old thunderrain(?). 3" in the last few days on already wet ground. Flood alert for a creek north of us. (There is a creek near us but it doesn’t get big. It’s “headwaters” are only just a couple blocks away. Consequence of living almost on top of the eastern divide.)
Have no idea when I’ll be able to till my garden.
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### Author:  [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/5 "2009-03-28T17:54:22Z")
Yesterday the “official” high was 102. We were out in the car, and the thermometer said it was actually 109. I can’t believe the snow in Amarillo–we’re in the same state! Anybody that doesn’t realize how big Texas is–think about that!
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/6 "2009-03-28T19:09:35Z")
Nothing too crazy. Overcast and drizzle on/off all day.
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### Author:  [@dynamitedave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dynamitedave)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/7 "2009-03-28T21:06:41Z")
All last week and most of the coming… fine, calm, maybe some high cloud. Mid 20’s during the day, dropping to low teens at night. Sunburned my head Friday as I forgot to wear my hat in the am. Classic autumn weather, I’m loving it! (well except for the red peeling nose)
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### Author:  [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/8 "2009-03-28T22:07:59Z")
I never saw thundersnow until I lived in Kalamazoo where they get it two or three times in the winter. After a night of thundersnow, the following day would be extremely foggy and you could barely see the ground, it was as if the college was transplanted into a cloud. I liked it. 😃
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/9 "2009-03-29T14:20:33Z")
We had rain all day Saturday & 1/2" of snow over night. Presently gray & 35F. Supposed to warm up & melt the snow this afternoon.
IOW, not much exciting to report.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/10 "2009-03-29T15:16:24Z")
Did you see Stefan Krieger?
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### Author:  [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thundersnow/491095/11 "2009-03-29T16:58:09Z")
Grinnell College is obsessed with thundersnow to the point that the “Grinnell Gifts” application on Facebook has a thundersnow gift.