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| Israel-Palestine |
| Thundersnow in Israel |
| 2004-02-15 |
| I just spoke to my son who was at a kibbutz near Efrat (about 30 mi S of Jerusalem) this weekend. They had snow with lightening and thunder and then freezing rain and wind and it did a number on the electrical grid. They got snow for two periods, each time about 2" per hour. This place is about the same latitude as Baton Rouge, LA. The haaretz article mentions the snow but not the lightening and thunder. In the US, thunder sometimes accompanies snowstorms, but it is very rare to actually see the lightening through the snow. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #7 I looked it up. The latitude of Efrat is about 31.2 degrees. baton rouge is about 30.2 degrees. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-2-15 7:44:32 PM |
| #6 I remember seeing it in 1982 here in St. Louis. I also remember the local weather people breaking into TV every half hour or so telling us that we were in for a bad one. They were right; worst snow we've ever had here, something like 2 feet in one night. Took me two days to shovel out the driveway and the town was shut down for a week. |
| Posted by: Christopher Johnson 2004-2-15 7:14:30 PM |
| #5 Its not that unusual. I have seen it on a number of occasions in Toronto. I recall seeing it in NYC also. Its probably less common in Europe and ME for the same reason tornados are less common. They dont have the very large drycold and warmmoist air masses meeting to the same extent as N America. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-2-15 6:13:50 PM |
| #4 June 14, 1984 I saw the first recorded thunderstorm in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, smack in the middle of the petroleum field. Pucker factor maxed out. |
| Posted by: TW 2004-2-15 5:37:36 PM |
| #3 They were just recalibrating the Zionist Death Ray. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2004-2-15 5:10:52 PM |
| #2 mhw, I've experienced similar weather. Bivouacing at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod one February night many years ago we had everything but sunshine. A strange sight indeed. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-2-15 1:04:37 PM |
| #1 It's very rare.... I saw snow, sleet, thunder, lightning and rain in the great gulf storm of March 13.... from St. George Island btw. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-15 1:03:41 PM |