"The Arietids"
What was the very impressive meteor shower, during the winter a few years back? I remember freezing my butt off, standing outside in my back yard, to watch. It was pretty impressive. Some were large enough to leave smoke trails, and ended with a flash. Didn't hear any noise associated with this, though. These were a different color from the far more frequent, smaller ones. Reddish, instead of blue-white.
As noted those were probably the Leonids. Unfortunately due to so imprecisise predictions the most impressive display of them wasn't seen by many people in the US; there was a "fireball storm" that was unbelievable. Not the thousands of meteors a minute as in 1966, but a couple really bright fireballs every minute. I saw one that lit up the entire countryside like daylight when it detonated, and the glowing smoke trail lasted over 5 minutes.
The issue of the "colors" people see for meteors is complicated...and it varies from person to person. ALL the Leonids looked green to me, but meteors from other showers don't.
Most unique aspect of the Leonids is they're really, really, really fast - by far the fastest of the meteor showers, and much faster than the routine erratic meteors you see every night once in a while.
The thing about the hundred or two hundred meteor showers with names is that they are named for the constellation the appear to come out of and due to planetary orbit characteristics they each occur on schedule, that is at the same time each year. It is possible for the same swarm to be seen as two different showers if the earth's orbit intersects the orbit of the swarm at two points.