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Thundersnow hammers the East Coast, and so do the jokes
CNET ^
| March 7, 2018
| Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
Posted on 03/07/2018 3:39:08 PM PST by EdnaMode
Because the snowstorm currently hitting the East Coast isn't enough, it's also bringing with it thundersnow. That weather phenomenon is exactly what it sounds like: a snowstorm that features thunder and lightning. Very, very frightening.
"Thunderstorms accompanied by snow are usually of a different character than the 'normal' thunderstorm," Weather.com explained in 2015. "Thundersnow develops when the air is below freezing near the ground, and unlike most summer thunderstorms, it isn't near-ground air that rises all the way into the tall thunderstorm top. The instability is in only a shallow layer aloft. In thundersnow, the 'action' mainly takes place in a rather shallow layer that is usually near 20,000 feet and only around 5,000 feet thick."
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: eastcoast; newyork; snow; snowstorm; thundersnow
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To: libertylover
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:10:44 PM PST
by
EdnaMode
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
Wow, twice in one day? That’s pretty amazing.
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:11:47 PM PST
by
EdnaMode
To: EdnaMode
a snowstorm that features thunder and lightning. Very, very frightening. If you are under the age of six.
23
posted on
03/07/2018 4:11:49 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
To: EdnaMode
thundersnow is one of the most awesome things in nature. Lightning reflecting off of billions of falling snowflakes in the dark. Awesome.
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:14:45 PM PST
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: EdnaMode
To: FourtySeven
Nor’easters still aren’t officially named. Weather Channel started naming winter storms as a marketing gimmick a few years ago.
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Not a Queen fan, I take it.
To: EdnaMode
They’re running out of crazy names for a Snow Storm
thunder and lightning. Very, very frightening. Galileo!
29
posted on
03/07/2018 4:23:02 PM PST
by
Rio
(I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
To: EdnaMode
No snow where I am south of Boston.
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:23:17 PM PST
by
Andy'smom
(Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
To: RegulatorCountry
That was "thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening"
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:27:53 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
To: rfp1234
I thought Robert Mitchum did thunder road...
Hmmmm
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:28:18 PM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
OK, so it was thundersnow and lightning, very very frightening.
To: FourtySeven
Shark-snow-nado. Nuff said!
Aw Hell gnaw!
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:30:30 PM PST
by
null and void
(The difference between the democrats and the GOPe is the GOPe has a smaller fire under the frog pot.)
To: EdnaMode
weather.com is an inaccurate drama-queen.
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:30:54 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
To: RegulatorCountry
Ok. If you say so.
But only if you do the fandango.
36
posted on
03/07/2018 4:36:49 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
This is as close as you'll get from me, lol.
To: RegulatorCountry
All right. If that is the best you can do. :)
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:51:32 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
To: EdnaMode
Studies of ice cores and deep ocean samples have shown that earth’s climate has been cycling through intense periods of cold (glaciation) to periods of life sustaining warmth (inter-glacials) for hundreds of millions of years, with clock-like regularity.
Glacial periods on earth generally last about 100,000 years, while inter-glacial periods generally last about 13,000 years. All of human history has transpired during the current inter-glacial period, which is now drawing to a close.
We’re on the cusp of a new ice age. Scientists have been well aware of this since the 1970s.
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posted on
03/07/2018 4:53:05 PM PST
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: TonyM
Reminds me of Sharnado 3 “Oh hell no!”
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