Wow!

[dreamshark]

Thunder!!

Comments

[galacticvoyeur.livejournal.com]

huh, I thought I saw a flash of lightning a half hour ago

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

*envy*

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Wow, yes! How often do we get thunder with snowfall?

hardly ever

[quadong.livejournal.com]

I don't recall it ever before. Kelly (who knows a bit (a large bit) about weather) says "I didn't think we could have the right conditions here for thunder snow". Probably it was managed because it was only just barely snow. From our place, it looked and felt like rain and you could only tell it was snow because of the little bit of accumulation in patches. I didn't see any lightning once it started being more earnestly snow (but I wasn't watching very carefully either).

Re: hardly ever

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall having it before, but can't remember exactly when. It's definitely not an everyday occurence.

[pameladean]

And there was lightning, too! At least the power didn't go out.

P.

[daedala.livejournal.com]

One of the lightning flashes seemed just above me; I could feel the shock wave of the thunder. Maybe I was making it up. But it was kind of cool.

Makes me glad I am short, though.

[quadong.livejournal.com]

Maybe not technically a shock wave (I'm not sure what makes something technically a shock wave; Wikipedia says "an abrupt, nearly discontinuous change in the characteristics of the medium", but whether there's some clear criterion for "abrupt" when speaking of air pressure beats me), but it's certainly not odd to feel the sound of thunder. It's much louder bass than you get outside of really loud concerts, after all, and you can certainly feel the bass in really loud concerts.