What unusual weather we've been having.

Lightning and thunder last night.

I could not tell if it was thunder or a plane just now. It's like a summer rainstorm today, only much colder.

I heard one rumble when I woke up around 3AM this morning.

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Lightning and thunder can happen during any of the 4 seasons.  We have had numerous occasions of "thunder snowstorms" during my lifetime.  The most memorable was on Christmas Eve night during the 1970's.  No snow on the ground going into church at 11:30 P.M., "thunder snowstorm" started about 20 minutes into the pre-Mass Carols & Lessons and over a foot of snow on the ground by the time Midnight Mass ended.

Oh are you almost bringing back some memories. I mean recently in 2002.  But when in the 1970's?  Was in the early 1970's because we were reminiscing just a few weeks ago at a family event about snow and looking at the old family photos and there was a big storm the day after Christmas in 1969, and I was little but I remember something in Christmas eve in 1966.  And one of my cousins wrote in their daughters' baby book about no snow for several Christmases and her daughter was born in 1976.  And I think she said it was 60 degrees in 1979.  But now you have me trying to remember and I look through photo albums which are not dated. We have a big mountain of snow off the driveway we were outside in the snow and it says Christmas vacation on the back but not the year. I have been trying to date photos and that would so much help to know the year. Because I don't think the photo I'm looking it is 1969 because of the car my family had that I can see in the picture.  I wish we documented things better in the days back then.  And DemocraticVoiceOfReason had to mention a storm and now it's going to be on my mind trying to remember, you are going to drive me up a wall now because I will trying to remember.  But I mean in a nice way.

I don't remember which year although it had to be sometime between 1974 and 1978.

Look everybody! Gerri J can't be DVOR, because she just referred to DVOR in her post! That proves it!

ok....ever hear of a ventriloquist???

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ok....ever hear of a ventriloquist???

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I don't remember which year although it had to be sometime between 1974 and 1978.

Let's see here.


On February 5, 2011 at 10:38 pm, DV posted the following:

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I remember the "thunder snow" storm we had on Christmas Eve in the mid 1970's.   Went into church for Midnight Mass and not a speck of snow on the ground --  heard the thunder during the 1st Reading  .. and by the time we got out of church there was at least a foot of snow on the ground and more coming down.

Good thing, my Mom and us kids were living on Lansing Street at the time -- we had at least a couple dozen relatives and friends stay over until the plows came through in the morning.

On February 21, 2014 at 6:37 pm, DV posted the following:

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Lightning and thunder can happen during any of the 4 seasons.  We have had numerous occasions of "thunder snowstorms" during my lifetime.  The most memorable was on Christmas Eve night during the 1970's.  No snow on the ground going into church at 11:30 P.M., "thunder snowstorm" started about 20 minutes into the pre-Mass Carols & Lessons and over a foot of snow on the ground by the time Midnight Mass ended.

So, DV, what EVIDENCE do you have to support your statement of how much snow had fallen in that short time?


Typical Midnight Mass is about an hour and half, maybe two hours.   The storm a week or so ago the weather forecasters were talking about snow coming down at the rate of two inches per hour.

Even the Christmas snowstorm of 2002  that paralyzed the city (and a large area in the northeast) did NOT produce snow at a rate that would equal what DV claims fell in some snowstorm (that included thunder) on some storm he references between 1974 and 1978.

I'm sure we will all be able to contact one the two "Steve" meteorlogists locally and they can tell us which Christmases in the 1970's that we had a snowstorm from Dec 24 to Dec 25.

But more importantly, these meteorologists can certainly tell us which of those Christmases saw no snow on the ground at all at 11:30 pm on Dec 24 and then a foot was on the ground only two hours later???????





DV, is this snow fall of 12 inches in an hour or so, is that included in the fairy tale book you are apparently writing?


DV will NOT provide any further posts on this thread, he's caught in a big LIE.

Maybe it was localized and only in Mt Pleasant?

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Maybe it was localized and only in Mt Pleasant?

Maybe he drank too much wine at Mass, actually I don't even remember if we were receiving under both species in those days.  

we'll never know, there'll be no response on this thread.

Must check for a thread on the meteor, see what he says.