Why there is no lightning when the weather is snowing?
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Its rare, but it can lightening when it snows
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They use a ouiji board.\n\nNot hard to predict snow, sleet, and hail in Winter and rain, wind, and thunderstorms in Summer.  Nice to throw in sunny or cloudy.\nThere are only so many different weather results.
988117
there's a phenomena called Virga, that occurs frequently that could be the cause of this...Virga is rain that doesn't actually reach the surface, and its possible if the thunderstorm just doesn't have enough moisture in them..but..most likely..is that the thunderstorm isn't mature enough to start raining yet..and will most likely start a few miles down the road\n\nThunder occurs anytime theres lightning, and Cloud to cloud lightning is very frequent, and isn't affected by the amount of precipitation in the cloud (although more precip will mean a stronger storm).\n\nYou're most likely hearing the thunder caused by cloud to cloud lighting..and the storm is not yet strong enough to begin precipitation at the surface
399461
Sometimes its warm up in the atmosphere, but cold down here. So when it seems like it might snow, it comes out as a wet rain. Sometimes its caused by warm fronts and cold fronts and high pressure and cold pressure that come threw and change the weather.
103937
Static electricity is caused by friction. When the air is dry like in winter there is more friction.
78877
The "white" is caused because snow has a great many tiny interfaces, called "phase boundaries," where air (a gas phase) meets ice (a solid phase). Every time light encounters a phase transition, it is defracted. If you've ever looked at a stick submerged partially, you've seen this--a straight stick will look like it has a bend in it right at the water's surface. Well, with snow, the tiny ice crystals, and the many small bubbles in ice (water is a bent and polar molecule, so when it freezes, it expands, making small bubbles inside), and the places where individual ice crystals begin and end--all of this scatters light all around. This makes it so that a big bunch of snow will look white. If you look at a single snowflake under a microscope, though, you will see that the crystals individally are clear.\n\nWhen it melts, there is only one phase transition, right at the surface. The light is defracted a bit, but only once--it doesn't scatter light all around like snow does.\n\nBut it can! If you've ever seen a big fountain, where the water is splashing and tumbling about, it will also look white due to phase transition. Likewise, if you make a whole bunch of tiny bubbles under water, you can scatter light and make it look white.
92209
It rains because the upper atmosphere is warmer than the air at the ground. Generally this is freezing rain, but not always.
404054
Yes. Anywhere that there is lightning there is a possibillity for red lighting. Red lightning is caused by, lighting traveling from cloud to cloud. The clouds then distort the color.
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Lightning causes thunder because a strike of lightning is incredibly hot. A typical bolt of lightning can immediately heat the air to between 15,000 to 60,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That's hotter than the surface of the sun!  \nA lightning strike can heat the air in a fraction of a second. When air is heated that quickly, it expands violently and then contracts, like an explosion that happens in the blink of an eye. It's that explosion of air that creates sound waves, which we hear and call thunder.  \n\nWhen lightning strikes very close by, we hear the thunder as a loud and short bang. We hear thunder from far away as a long, low rumble.  \n\nLightning always produces thunder. When you see lightning but don't hear any thunder, the lightning is too far away from you for the sound waves to reach you.  \n\nLight and sound will always move at different speeds. And lightning will always produce thunder because of a strike's high temperature. So no matter what, you will always see a flash of lightning before you hear thunder.
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The exact reason is not proven, but suspected that it is because precipitation falls to the ground carrying electrons, and the lightning occurs when the difference in charges between the clouds and the ground even out, and the electrons jump back to the clouds.  That is why lightning is said to go from ground to the clouds.
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It will snow when temperatures are at 32F or below and when their is sufficient moisture in the atmosphere.  It will hail at many different temperatures when the hail rises then falls, rises with air currents then falls when gravity overcomes the aircurrents.
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That is an interesting question.  What is snow made of?\nWater, right? Except it is water frozen in a special\nway, by accretion of little bits as the snowflake\ndrops through the atmosphere, so that snow is pretty\nrandom stuff, compared to ice which is also frozen\nwater, but which has all the water molecules nicely\nlined up which makes it transparent.  The randomness\nof snow means that when light strikes the snow it\ngets scattered in all directions, and all colors are\njumbled up, so when you look at snow all you see is\nthe jumble, which shows up as white light.  When\nit melts, it just turns into water (and usually\ndisappears into the ground) which does not have the\nkind of randomness snow has at the level of the\nwavelengths of visible light.  (Visible light\nhas wavelengths much longer than the size of molecules).\nSo, the "white" did not really exist on its own -\nit was a property of the arrangement of the water molecules\nin snow, and disappears as soon as that arrangement is\nchanged.\n\nDoes this help?
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Lightning and thunder can happen while snowing, but it's quite rare.  It has to do with the fact that cold air holds less moisture than warm air.  The more moisture a cloud contains the bigger the storm becomes.  That's why thunderstorms are common in the warm weather months.  In the winter, less moisture is available which does not promote the forming of clouds that support thunderstorms.  However, with the right dynamics in the atmosphere, especially with nor'easters or lake effect snows, thundersnows occur.  Here in north central Indiana we had a thundersnow during an event that produced heavy snow a couple years ago.  I've only seen it once though in the 23 years I've lived here.
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Not a common occurrence, but it certainly does happen...as it did this morning here.  Typically precipitating clouds in the winter are much less developed than summer thunderstorms, but occasionally more developed storm clouds do occur in winter and generate lightning (and thunder) just as they do in summer.  Expect a short and intense snowfall when it happens.
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Each drop of rain, or snowflake, carries a very tiny electrical charge as it falls.  When you get a concentrated amount of rainfall or snowfall in a local area with a lot of updraft/downdraft activity, as with a cumulonimbus cloud, whose height can top 60,000 feet, there is a large amount of electrostatic charge that builds up between the cloud and the ground, and also from cloud to cloud.  When the charge is huge enough to overcome the dielectric resistance of the air between, there's an arc, or discharge, of that static electricity, visible as lightning.  The thunder is the sound of that huge spark as it jumps the gap.  Since sound travels only about 760 MPH through air (approx. 1100 ft / sec), while light's speed 186000 MPS is so much faster, the delay in hearing the thunder is a good approximate indicator (in fifths of a mile), of how far away the lightning strike was.
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Lightning during a snowstorm.
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It's called "thunder snow" & it's rare, since cold weather usually doesn't have the right conditions for cumulonimbus clouds to form. However if the conditions are right (warmer air & moisture) thunderstorms can form in the winter as well.\n\nIt's pretty wild, I've seen it a couple times in the northeast. It's especially amazing at night, the lightning creates a giant strobe effect.