Posted by Honar the librarian on 2005-12-09 18:20:42 +0000
Thundersnow!
Thundersnow!
Experiencing it for the first time--very strange.
Who knew?
(besides the cat that posted it on wikipedia)
Posted by tgl on 2005-12-09 18:32:15 +0000
I was just about to post this "nowcast" from wunderground.com (so, I knew):
Now
thundersnow possible this afternoon... rain is expected to mix with and change over to snow between 2 and 3 PM. Through 5 PM snowfall rates of one to two inches per hour are expected...with visibility as low as one quarter mile at times. Thundersnow is possible. The back edge of the snow is expected to reach east coastal Massachusetts including Gloucester...Boston and Plymouth between 430 and 530 PM. In addition...an abrupt wind shift to the northwest is anticipated. Winds will increase this afternoon to 25 to 25 mph...with gusts as high as 50 mph.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-12-09 19:11:30 +0000
It's fuckin' awesome. A first we thought it might have been snow falling from the roof, but then we got a huge lightning flash. Sick.
Highland Ave East bound is totally stopped. 20 cars or so just lined up in front of my house.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-12-10 00:24:57 +0000
I was walking back from Grasshopper in the middle of it, then over to the train. Amazing.
Posted by Miriam on 2005-12-12 17:10:58 +0000
I was in one of those storms in Feb '92 in Jerusalem...my school had gone to a restaurant across town to celebrate a birthday and left to find a blizzard with thunder and lightning and sideways snow. It was unbelievable. We had a snowball fight with soldiers, helped push a bulldozer cum snowplow which had been caught off-balance, and we walked a few miles back to school. One girl got hit by a car, and another peed herself to keep warm. When we got back to our dorm, I tried to get the snow off the lemon tree just outside to keep it from losing limbs. Everyone thought I was crazy trying to save a tree.
I had snow dreadlocks...pics of that somewhere.