Quoted: Thunder and lightning during a snowstorm is different from a run-of-the-mill snowstorm; it is extremely rareâ??fewer than 1 percent of observed snowstorms unleash thundersnow, according to a 1971 NSW study. But recorded observations of the phenomenon date back to 250 B.C., say ancient Chinese records translated in 1980 by atmospheric scientist Pao-Kuan Wang, now of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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