Thunderstorm in November...in Iowa!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Now, I’m not one to mindlessly jump on the “Weather is weird, end of world is at hand” bandwagon, but I’m sitting through a thunderstorm on the tenth of November in Iowa.

I don’t remember (in all of my years of living here) this being a common event.

Or even an event at all.

It’s definitely a strange thing. Thunder has been rumbling for a few hours, and rain has been hitting as well. They are saying snow to my north (which wouldn’t bother me much), and mostly rain where I am (which also wouldn’t bother me much), but thunderstorms?

I know it can happen, but it very rarely does.

Just bizarre. Never mind.

Or start a “weird weather” thread, if you like.

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In the middle 60’s, I lived in Chicago.

Walking home from school one day, in the driving snow, I saw lightning, & heard thunder.

For real.

3

Um, I don’t think thunderstorms are all that unusual in Iowa in November. And I have experienced thunder-snow storms in upstate New York, Chicago and St. Louis. Way cool!!

4

We just got your storm an hour ago…it was Thundersnow. You can have it back…really. I call these big, wet snowflake “kitten eating snowflakes” because I usually can’t resist the temptation to let my indoor cat out to play with them and then she realizes that they only make her cold and wet and get into her little fuzzy ears. My black and white cat turns all white for a while and a good time is had by all…people, that is.

5

Thundersnow is definitely way cool.

It was about this time of year in 2003 when we had a tornado. It was a teeny little thing, as tornados go, but I’d never experienced one before and was stunned at the amount of damage it did.

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Do you live in/near Wooster? It got hit 11/12/03.

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I’ll trade you. That same storm dumped about 6" of snow on me. And it was almost 70º here just Wednesday.

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You had it there in Iowa, and we had it here near Chicago. My poor daughter drove home from college in it all the way.

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My weather was even stranger. It was a warm (80°+) afternoon with low humidity and a nice breeze. It felt like early summer before the humidity set in. It’s November and it should be brisk and windy. The mild reprieve from winter was great but now I’m wondering what’s gonna happen in March and April?

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Thundersnows are the weirdest. I remember coming out of choir practice, and it was snowing heavily, and the sky was flashing purple. Eerie and bizarre.

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Dijon, I read this OP Friday then saw the extensive article about Iowan thundersnow in yesterday’s paper. Must have been some storm.

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Yeah, it was. I didn’t get snow down where I was (although people north of me did), but thunderstorms are usually a summer-type event. It’s not unheard of for November, but it’s not common.

We haven’t gotten snow yet where I am this year, but it’s coming, I have no doubt.

I’ve experienced thundersnow (which is weird enough), but lightning is even weirder: it illuminates everything.

It just seemed strange enough to mention…mundane and pointless and so forth.