I'm not a weather weenie, but as I understand it, if you have warm, wet air in place, and you get a mass of cold air move in (as we did yesterday) the cold air forces the warm air up and over it. The mixing causes thunderstorms to form, but as the rain falls through the cold layer of air close to the ground it freezes, landing as sleet or hail. So, you have thunderstorms with sleet, or *thundersleet*.
I just think the name sounds cool...
We had thundersleet last night!
Incredible pictures, g'nad. They are beautiful...I thought my neighborhood had a Narnia feel...right down to my lightpost out front.
We're in our fourth and final wave, hopefully. It's not much, but the wind is going to kick up after it goes through. That may cause some problems, but we've done pretty good so far, I'm optimistic.
I have a whole list of "Things I need to have on hand *next time".
