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- 1. snowfall accompanied by thunder and lightning: "more than 400,000 Washington homes were left without power after thundersnow swept across the capital"
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Thundersnow, also known as a winter thunderstorm or a thundersnow storm, is a thunderstorm in which snow falls as the primary precipitation instead of rain. It is considered a rare phenomenon. It typically falls in regions of strong upward motion within the cold sector of an extratropical cyclone. Thermodynamically, it is not different from any other type of thunderstorm, but the top of the cumulo... Wikipedia