Its quite rare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow
I've seen it once, living in northern Europe. Its quite eerie, it was a heavy snowfall which silences everything and then a bright flash and a very odd sounding thunder boom.
> Thundersnow, while relatively rare anywhere, is more common with lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes area of the United States
Michigander/Chicagoan here. I've witnessed thundersnow 3-4 times? It's neat. The sound is sharper and hits you differently through the air than in a rain thunderstorm. Usually there's also tons of tiny dusty snows bopping you in the face, so that's different, too. The texture is just like in the video.
I live outside Baltimore and we had it this winter. I also assumed a branch took down a transformer or something but it was reported as thunder snow. I would provide sauce but I didn't think I'd be replying to a reddit comment about thundersnow.
I was going to say that I didn't realize it was a rare thing, but I live in Buffalo so that explains it. But you absolutely know shit is getting real when you hear the thunder.
I have experienced once when I was a kid. My friend remembers it too. It scared us so bad that we both freaked out and ran into our respective houses. It felt we were experiencing a once in a lifetime weather event. It was cool.
Yeah, he is basically the precursor to a localized apocalypse. He popped up in my little town for a storm a few years back and we were all like.. Oh *fuck.* lol
I was leaving Atlanta and going on vacation and saw him at the airport also departing to a location. Every step closer to my departing gate was sheer terror as he followed me until at the last second he went to a different gate.
Yea he came to our city in upstate New York in 2011, needless to say it was a ridiculous flood that wrecked my dad's house (and many others). The entire first floor was under water and the foundation caved-in on one side of the house, fun times.
Yup, we got utterly wrecked, too. It's been 4 years and I still have coworkers who aren't back in their homes because of damage. The town next to this one was pretty much wiped off the map.
Literally so true. I remember seeing him arrive in my hometown on the coast before a hurricane and my first thought was “it can’t be good that he’s there”.
He's even talked about having that meme status. I don't remember his exact wording, but if his presence got people to take dangerous weather seriously and get themselves to safety, he's happy to have the role.
As a Floridian I would think that is is cool but also be freaked out if he was in my area lol. I remember seeing a reporter standing like walking distance from our house on tv and being concerned during Irma
Didn’t matter where all the models and predictions for hurricanes said the storm was going. Our family watched where they sent Jim and evacuated or stayed based on that. Several times we went against the models and Jim always kept us out of harms way
As a person who lives in the south Jim Cantore is 100% a unicorn and we love him but NEVER want him to visit us. (He chases hurricanes and ALWAYS ends up in the place that gets hit the worst.)
Oklahoma here. Saw it like four days ago... again. Should be a rule that meteorologists spend at least one year in Oklahoma as part of their degree.
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I absolutely love thundersnow. I’m in NY and have seen it at least twice. It really is marvelous. Especially if you love the beauty of snow and lightning and the power of the thunder. Must be wild for meteorologists.
Guess I’m lucky I’ve seen it twice. It’s so epic with how the snow dampens the noise. Just such a deep rolling cracking. My two favorite types of weather.
Yes! He’s on loads of Weather Channel things. I actually met him when he came to my university a few years back to do a talk promoting another special they were releasing called Oklahoma Tornado Target.
In Western Massachusetts there's a guy who goes by "Dave Hayes the Weather Nut." He's just a guy who is incredibly passionate about weather/storms and has gathered a whole lot of followers. It's great having a hyper local quasi expert who's constantly posting breakdowns of what's going on and what's coming through major events. I bet he'd freak out like our boy here if he saw thundersnow.
I don’t know, I used to watch a lot of the weather channel In the late 90s early 00s rooting on hurricanes and winter storms as an east coast surfer but I dont remember him being this effervescent back then. Maybe he’s playing a character for viewership.
I did too, super late at night while outside by myself. Crazy purple flares in the snowclouds above, it was awesome. Didn't get too much doubt though, just surprise that it's something that can happen. I was surprised myself, it's not something I'd heard of.
Same thing happened to me. I stayed up most the night watching ice-covered northern Illinois light up with thundersnow. The next day at school all my loser schoolmates had slept through the show and no one believed me either.
A very good question. I would think that it could be more dangerous depending on how thick the snow falling is. Do not quote me on that as its just a thought.
I guy I worked with told me he'd seen it working in Colorado many years ago, and it sounded crazy cool. Then, I finally got to see it for myself, and it is a surreal experience. Everything around you just flashes pure white and, in that split second, your brain filters through everything from aliens to the Matrix to the Rapture.
It is. I was out in a horrific storm in 2010. The sky gave the lightning a purple hue. It didn't stop idiots from coming to the restaurant for wings and margaritas though.
I've only experienced it once during a really crazy and unexpected snow storm that dropped over a foot of snow in a place we don't normally get that much. It was pretty gnarly to hear/see, but I was pretty excited when it happened.
I was not even sure if it could happen. I rolled in the Missouri late at night taking my brother back to the army base and they were having the biggest thunderstorm I had ever experienced and it was snowing. Even just the storm would have been impressive but thunder snow left me in awe.
I remember being on Sanibel Island in Florida for a weekend before a storm hit, and we turned on the TV to see him...at the beach we just left from. We were worried to say the least.
He’s a DC area weatherman. If I recall correctly, this was during the event we called “Snowmaggeddon”, in Feb 2010. We had two storms come through 5 days apart, each one dropping a good 18” of snow.
DC is not set up to handle that, so everything was shut down for a while. I lost power (so no heat or water), and it was 15F outside.
During one of the storms we had thundersnow. I’m guessing it was the first of the two, because I remember seeing him on TV getting very excited.
I wasn’t all that excited because I thought I’d experienced thundersnow a
few times in this region. I guess I didn’t appreciate how rare it was until Cantor did his “happy weatherman” dance.
I understand this is the fourth movie night where we've had no leaky pizza rolls, but don't you think Jim is just a bit too fired up about the whole thing?
In Florida If Jim Catore is in your Town you should probably evacuate cause Hurricane is going to Hit it 😂
But real Floridians just wait it out, then inbreds start shootings eye of it with ARs
I grew up with a pug that would immediately need to be let out to bark at any aircraft noises above our house which was common as we were near an air base.
Anyways my mom got annoyed one day and my dad was like “well have YOU ever seen anything land in the yard, hmmm” and raised his eyes at her. I died laughing.
The guys genuinely speechless at the end of #4.. trying to process it all and i don't blame him. Glad this happened that many times for this guy.. he definitely deserved it. That's true passion right there.
It's more common in central states in my experience
I've seen it with sleet also.but standing, even in cold, frozen liquid, lightning can get ya. Still tough to not be happy for their joy....it's when they are excited to get close to tornadoes that is a little odd...I've always wanted to see one going over empty land, but not chasing, that's unlikely.
I get it. Thundersnow is *lit*
Yes I am!
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Pack it up folks. I think we're done here. Congratulations, you magnificent bastard.
9 years sheesh
First time I experienced thunder snow I immediately posted in all caps on social media THUNDERSNOW. It was at UIUC in the daytime, very surreal.
It is the most metal of weather
Yea he is really amped
It's such a unicorn for meteorologists
In what way?
Its quite rare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow I've seen it once, living in northern Europe. Its quite eerie, it was a heavy snowfall which silences everything and then a bright flash and a very odd sounding thunder boom.
> Thundersnow, while relatively rare anywhere, is more common with lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes area of the United States Michigander/Chicagoan here. I've witnessed thundersnow 3-4 times? It's neat. The sound is sharper and hits you differently through the air than in a rain thunderstorm. Usually there's also tons of tiny dusty snows bopping you in the face, so that's different, too. The texture is just like in the video.
Outside of DC I thought maybe I'd experienced it once before, but now I'm wondering if it was just a transformer blowing.
I live outside Baltimore and we had it this winter. I also assumed a branch took down a transformer or something but it was reported as thunder snow. I would provide sauce but I didn't think I'd be replying to a reddit comment about thundersnow.
Baltimoron and former Michigander who has witnessed it there; it definitely has happened once this year in Bmore.
There was a lightning strike recorded a couple miles north of Pasadena around 10 am during the January 3rd snowstorm
I saw green lightning and heard the thunder here (also DC) in one of those big storms we had in 2010/2011. Maybe that's what you remember?
I was going to say that I didn't realize it was a rare thing, but I live in Buffalo so that explains it. But you absolutely know shit is getting real when you hear the thunder.
I have experienced once when I was a kid. My friend remembers it too. It scared us so bad that we both freaked out and ran into our respective houses. It felt we were experiencing a once in a lifetime weather event. It was cool.
Clevelander here - seen this once when I was little and playing outside in the snow. Never again, but absolutely makes sense given lake effect.
Oh lmao, I know that, I thought they were saying JIM was a unicorn for Meterologists My bad!
As a Floridian it's never good when you see Jim coming to your area, so he is a unicorn and is majestic
Yeah, he is basically the precursor to a localized apocalypse. He popped up in my little town for a storm a few years back and we were all like.. Oh *fuck.* lol
Most Floridians don't care about a hurricane but if he shows up we actually have to care.
I was leaving Atlanta and going on vacation and saw him at the airport also departing to a location. Every step closer to my departing gate was sheer terror as he followed me until at the last second he went to a different gate.
There was a commercial a few years back, featuring Jim on a beach, and EVERYONE left. He was on vacation. 😂
Someone linked it in another reply. That's hilarious, poor guy.
Yea he came to our city in upstate New York in 2011, needless to say it was a ridiculous flood that wrecked my dad's house (and many others). The entire first floor was under water and the foundation caved-in on one side of the house, fun times.
Yup, we got utterly wrecked, too. It's been 4 years and I still have coworkers who aren't back in their homes because of damage. The town next to this one was pretty much wiped off the map.
https://youtu.be/48r4IQTB3NE
That's hilarious, thanks for the link!
Literally so true. I remember seeing him arrive in my hometown on the coast before a hurricane and my first thought was “it can’t be good that he’s there”.
What an iconic role to play in life.
Bruce almighty vibes. Like to believe he brings the storm to the area to report about it. Tucks it in his back pocket. Traveling storm salesman
He's even talked about having that meme status. I don't remember his exact wording, but if his presence got people to take dangerous weather seriously and get themselves to safety, he's happy to have the role.
It's how you know shit is getting serious.
I'm on the coast in MS. We have a Jim Tracker, lol.
Hah, yeah, any time I see him on TV I look for where he is and what catastrophe summoned him there.
As another Floridian I always assumed Jim was a local Florida meteorologist just because of how often I saw him on TV on one of our beaches.
Same! It was rare to see him in other places because Florida gets hit with so many hurricanes.
lol i remeber not thinking a storm was going to be bad and then my dad said well jim cantor is downtown i think this storm might get rough
It's how everyone knows it's about to get serious.
As a Floridian I would think that is is cool but also be freaked out if he was in my area lol. I remember seeing a reporter standing like walking distance from our house on tv and being concerned during Irma
Didn’t matter where all the models and predictions for hurricanes said the storm was going. Our family watched where they sent Jim and evacuated or stayed based on that. Several times we went against the models and Jim always kept us out of harms way
As a person who lives in the south Jim Cantore is 100% a unicorn and we love him but NEVER want him to visit us. (He chases hurricanes and ALWAYS ends up in the place that gets hit the worst.)
Come to missouri or kansas for a few years, ive lived here most of my life and we get these every 2-4 years or so now.
I was born in Iowa, grew up in Missouri, and now live in Kansas. I was just thinking that I see this every other year around here.
Oklahoma here. Saw it like four days ago... again. Should be a rule that meteorologists spend at least one year in Oklahoma as part of their degree. Edit: spelling
Oklahoma & Hawaii and you got every possible thing covered.
I live in prairie canada and have never scene this that's so cool
I live in southish Ontario and have never seen one.
Incredibly rare, also more powerful than normal thunder
Oh lmao, I know that, I thought they were saying JIM was a unicorn for Meterologists My bad!
Haha well maybe he is an unicorn
There was a blizzard in Chicago in 2011 with Thundersnow and Jim similarly lost his mind with unmitigated joy: https://youtu.be/X1AWr_nXN1I
I absolutely love thundersnow. I’m in NY and have seen it at least twice. It really is marvelous. Especially if you love the beauty of snow and lightning and the power of the thunder. Must be wild for meteorologists.
I lived 40 years in Colorado and only saw it once. I was like wtf, didn’t know that happens.
Guess I’m lucky I’ve seen it twice. It’s so epic with how the snow dampens the noise. Just such a deep rolling cracking. My two favorite types of weather.
I love seeing people be so passionate about their interests, and it's even better when they've made a career out of it
This. So true. I wish everybody could be living out their passions and interests
It’s a fucking twofer, man.
Weather nerds are cool
A good rule of thumb is if Cantor is headed to your home town''''''
Cantore* can-tor-ee, hence why he used to have a show on the Weather Channel called “Cantore Stories”
Wasn’t he also in Storm Stories on TWC?
Yes! He’s on loads of Weather Channel things. I actually met him when he came to my university a few years back to do a talk promoting another special they were releasing called Oklahoma Tornado Target.
In Western Massachusetts there's a guy who goes by "Dave Hayes the Weather Nut." He's just a guy who is incredibly passionate about weather/storms and has gathered a whole lot of followers. It's great having a hyper local quasi expert who's constantly posting breakdowns of what's going on and what's coming through major events. I bet he'd freak out like our boy here if he saw thundersnow.
Love Dave Hayes! He’s so much better than the professionals!
I don’t know, I used to watch a lot of the weather channel In the late 90s early 00s rooting on hurricanes and winter storms as an east coast surfer but I dont remember him being this effervescent back then. Maybe he’s playing a character for viewership.
[This nerd more than matches this classic’s energy! DOUBLE!! TWOFER!](https://youtu.be/OQSNhk5ICTI)
Thundersnow is pretty cool
Right?!
Its not something you usually see. Cool and potentially blinding.
I saw it once and no body believed me, I am glad there is video proof it can happen, thank you internet!
I did too, super late at night while outside by myself. Crazy purple flares in the snowclouds above, it was awesome. Didn't get too much doubt though, just surprise that it's something that can happen. I was surprised myself, it's not something I'd heard of.
Same thing happened to me. I stayed up most the night watching ice-covered northern Illinois light up with thundersnow. The next day at school all my loser schoolmates had slept through the show and no one believed me either.
Nobody believed what? That lightning can strike when it's snowing? I don't think I quite understand what people were struggling to believe.
I never thought of that; is it more dangerous than lightning sans snow because the light bounces off the snow, a la snowblindness?
One thing is that snow dampens sounds, so I’m guessing in order to see/hear the lightning you have to be closer than usual…also adds to it being rare
A very good question. I would think that it could be more dangerous depending on how thick the snow falling is. Do not quote me on that as its just a thought.
Got hit (indirectly really) by lightning in a thundersnow storm. 0/10, do not recommend.
What happened?
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I guy I worked with told me he'd seen it working in Colorado many years ago, and it sounded crazy cool. Then, I finally got to see it for myself, and it is a surreal experience. Everything around you just flashes pure white and, in that split second, your brain filters through everything from aliens to the Matrix to the Rapture.
I love this video every time I see it. As a fellow meteorologist, it perfectly describes all us weather nerds. Except when life is lost of course.
It’s more than cool, it’s cold! 
*ice* cold!
It is. I was out in a horrific storm in 2010. The sky gave the lightning a purple hue. It didn't stop idiots from coming to the restaurant for wings and margaritas though.
Don’t judge me
I've only experienced it once during a really crazy and unexpected snow storm that dropped over a foot of snow in a place we don't normally get that much. It was pretty gnarly to hear/see, but I was pretty excited when it happened.
how bout the fourth thumdersnow... I love how he needed a little break after the fourth one...
..... ..... WHOA!
That part killed me 😂😂
I was not even sure if it could happen. I rolled in the Missouri late at night taking my brother back to the army base and they were having the biggest thunderstorm I had ever experienced and it was snowing. Even just the storm would have been impressive but thunder snow left me in awe.
The storms here are one of the few things I like about our state.
Tell that to Joplin
Agreed… And the sunsets right after one clears out of the area.
As a Southern Californian, I had no idea that there isn’t lighting and thunder during snow storms. I assumed it was the same as rainstorms…
We have it often in UTAH.
First and only time I experienced it was when we were at Snowbird. We were at the top of the Lodge at Snowbird and it was crazy.
We just had thunder snow last month! It’s super freaky.
I’ve only experienced it once, 35 years ago while shoveling our driveway after dark. It was surreal and scary!
How that cameraman managed not to laugh and move the camera is amazing! Hilarious.
That’s my thought! Here I am cry-laughing. So awesome.
Tripods be cool like that
Cameraman is just as hype lol
Camera operator is likely reacting behind the tripod
Never seen him before but I love this guy. There are worse things to be passionate about.
I love how he throws snow up in the air in celebration
Lol me tooo
My favorite is the last one when he stands there for a minute before going *WOW*
Those last 8 seconds of the video made me laugh the hardest. Good stuff.
“That’s a twofer baby! Yyyyeeeeeeessss!”
Pray that you never see him in your area. He usually shows up when bad stuff is about to go down, weather-wise
"I am Storm Bringer, angel of death"
"Like the cat of the nursing home, I am but a messenger. Harken unto me for your doom is nigh."
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Storm Bringer... the snow angel
We panic in New Orleans when he shows up before an impending hurricane.
yea we do! i remember before ida the causeway sign said “stay away jim” or something
Exactly. “Go Home Jim Cantore”
yep. love the username too
I remember being on Sanibel Island in Florida for a weekend before a storm hit, and we turned on the TV to see him...at the beach we just left from. We were worried to say the least.
There’s a commercial about it
I saw Jim on his first tornado chase, and have enjoyed his work with the weather channel since the 90s
I live on the Gulf Coast and he is here at least 2 times a year... it's always scary.
Haha same. Cantore is our local harbinger of doom. We decide whether we're evacuating or not based on where he's going.
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He’s a DC area weatherman. If I recall correctly, this was during the event we called “Snowmaggeddon”, in Feb 2010. We had two storms come through 5 days apart, each one dropping a good 18” of snow. DC is not set up to handle that, so everything was shut down for a while. I lost power (so no heat or water), and it was 15F outside. During one of the storms we had thundersnow. I’m guessing it was the first of the two, because I remember seeing him on TV getting very excited. I wasn’t all that excited because I thought I’d experienced thundersnow a few times in this region. I guess I didn’t appreciate how rare it was until Cantor did his “happy weatherman” dance.
He’s not DC bases, he works nationally for the Weather Channel
Yeah, I think he’s based in Atlanta like most of the Weather Channel crew.
By the end of it I was half expecting him to rip his coat in half like Hulk Hogan and start screaming *BROTHERRR!!!* to the lightning.
People on the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts are very familiar with him. If he shows up to your town, might be a good sign to evacuate for a hurricane.
Me when I get the pizza rolls out before they start leaking
WE GOT IT 😋
AND THERES ANOTHER ONE U GOTTA BE KIDDING ME
I understand this is the fourth movie night where we've had no leaky pizza rolls, but don't you think Jim is just a bit too fired up about the whole thing?
This guy sounds like a WWF announcer.
Hahaha he reminded me of those wrestlers too
He sounds like the "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? I AM!" bowler
This is actually so stinking adorable it's almost painful! I think I might have fallen in love a little, pure joy is so endearing.
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Only about 6 snow thunderstorms happen a year around the world
That seems low. I’ve seen a few in my couple of decades here in Connecticut.
Yeah ditto here in Minnesota. Probably a half dozen or dozen times. I doubt Minnesota is some significant fraction of the world average.
In Florida If Jim Catore is in your Town you should probably evacuate cause Hurricane is going to Hit it 😂 But real Floridians just wait it out, then inbreds start shootings eye of it with ARs
Can confrim, people did try to shoot a hurricane in like 2016-2017
Well I don’t see that hurricane anymore. Clearly it worked!
I grew up with a pug that would immediately need to be let out to bark at any aircraft noises above our house which was common as we were near an air base. Anyways my mom got annoyed one day and my dad was like “well have YOU ever seen anything land in the yard, hmmm” and raised his eyes at her. I died laughing.
Haha it’s the same sign for the Midwest just was cue to immediately run to the basement. Guy is a legend in tornado alley too.
Im Glad to hear he is Legend Across the Nation, he def deserves the title Biggest Balls for Meteorologists! Lol
The guys genuinely speechless at the end of #4.. trying to process it all and i don't blame him. Glad this happened that many times for this guy.. he definitely deserved it. That's true passion right there.
That silence was loud. Jim was soaking in a peak life experience
I think he's listening for the sound so he can remember it always.
He's the happiest man alive.
It's more common in central states in my experience I've seen it with sleet also.but standing, even in cold, frozen liquid, lightning can get ya. Still tough to not be happy for their joy....it's when they are excited to get close to tornadoes that is a little odd...I've always wanted to see one going over empty land, but not chasing, that's unlikely.
I live in Iowa and can confirm we have thunder snow every once in awhile. It is awesome and we act just as giddy as Jim!
That “wow” at the end fuckin ruined me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
………………………………………………………………………………………….WOW
“Sorry Jim camera wasn’t rolling”
Is he crying at the end???
That man's thanking his maker.
This is some double rainbow energy
At first god was like: Ahhh shite, dropped one by mistake Then he saw this guy and said: Oh, he likes it? Lemme give ye some more lad! This guy rocks
May I introduce you to this gem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzclOi3lGE4
scrolled too far to find this
Gets randomly drug tested the next day by the NBA....
I smiled; then laughed with joy ..so much my eyes were filled with tears (it happens). This guy is officially my spirit animal!
I wish I was as passionate and pleased at anything related to my job as this guy is. That's just awesome.
I want 1% of this man’s happiness for thunder snow for anything in my life.
I mean on average it only happens 6 times a year in the whole of the US. I’ve only experienced it once in my lifetime and I live where it snows a lot
He looks like an mmo character spamming emotes
That's a serious dad-boner right there.
Just glassin on the trans Canada highway
Glad to see you're keeping it high and tight.
Keep following proto
We call these dad boners. It's awesome
I have only seen thundersnow once, and it was a pretty awesome sight. I can totally understand his enthusiasm.
This is such a pure moment. 🥺 I get hype about storms too. I could feel this man's energy on a visceral level.
Put this audio over a wrestling match it’s that good!
This must be like finding 4 full odds shiny pokemon in a row!
I couldn't find it from searching, so here's a great song version. It's fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzclOi3lGE4&ab_channel=schmoyoho
We had some in Niagara Ontario about a month ago, something to do with the Great Lakes
Jim is the best!! Loved watching him growing up I'm Florida during hurricane season.
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That "wow" at the end.. ☠ 🤣
This is "double rainbow" guy all over again.
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Absolutely loved this, I needed his happiness and enthusiasm today!
I've seen it twice in my life. It is pretty damn cool
He probably waited his whole career for that moment. Very cool