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Offline Roger Kettle

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Funny Weather.
« on: January 04, 2008, 08:46:07 PM »
I was looking out the window yesterday, watching the snow falling. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning and, a few seconds later, a rumble of thunder. Now, I'm not a meot...metoro...a person who knows much about weather but is this common? Snow, thunder and lightning?
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Offline Mince

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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2008, 08:52:38 PM »
It's difficult to have lightning without thunder.

Maybe the thunder is God shivering in the snow.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2008, 09:02:01 PM »
Quote from: Mince on January 04, 2008, 08:52:38 PM
It's difficult to have lightning without thunder.

Maybe the thunder is God shivering in the snow.

Tranquil has religious leanings. He should know.

I expect the damp snow, being fluffy, stuck to the lightning forks and gradually extinguished them. That would also have minimised the thunder.

I must state I'm not a trained meteorologist.
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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2008, 09:03:33 PM »
Yes!!! Yes!!! I too have witnessed lightning when it was snowing... and NO thunder... I knew I hadn't dreamt it!!!
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2008, 09:37:11 PM »
Quote from: Tom on January 04, 2008, 09:03:33 PM
Yes!!! Yes!!! I too have witnessed lightning when it was snowing... and NO thunder... I knew I hadn't dreamt it!!!

Maybe you were just asleep
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2008, 09:44:47 PM »
Perhaps he had the volume turned down.
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2008, 11:59:35 PM »
Quote from: The Peepmaster on January 04, 2008, 09:02:01 PM
Tranquil has religious leanings. He should know.


I tend to lean away from religion, towards faith, Peepsie.

As for the question, God knows.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2008, 12:03:09 AM »
Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on January 04, 2008, 11:59:35 PM


As for the question, God knows.

Yes, but Mince doesn't seem to be on here tonight.
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2008, 12:04:31 AM »
He'll be off taking his name in vain somewhere.
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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2008, 01:05:54 AM »
Sorry for the absence: I've been moving in mysterious ways.
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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2008, 02:21:46 AM »
I used to tell my kids that thunder was god shifting his furniture.
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2008, 03:24:26 AM »
Funny weather: when it's raining plastic dog poop and rubber chickens.
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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2008, 10:36:57 AM »
Quote from: Mince on January 04, 2008, 08:52:38 PM
It's difficult to have lightning without thunder.


Not in Sydney - we frequently get what we call electrical storms, with just the lightning, but maybe the thunder's very quiet.  We don't have the snow, though. Sounds pretty funny to me, Roger, but then it's usually pretty warm and humid (like now) when we get our storms.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2008, 12:00:35 PM »
Quote from: Joan on January 06, 2008, 10:36:57 AM
Quote from: Mince on January 04, 2008, 08:52:38 PM
It's difficult to have lightning without thunder.


Not in Sydney - we frequently get what we call electrical storms, with just the lightning, but maybe the thunder's very quiet.  We don't have the snow, though. Sounds pretty funny to me, Roger, but then it's usually pretty warm and humid (like now) when we get our storms.

I noticed that in The Philippines last year. You would regularly see lightning flashing in the far distance, and in various parts of the sky, but hear no thunder.
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Re: Funny Weather.
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2008, 12:58:16 PM »
That's because the storm is too far off. You'll only hear thunder if the storm is in the vicinity.

When I was a kid we used to count elephants after we saw lightning -"one elephant, two elephants, three elephants..." and however many elephants you counted before you heard thunder, that's how many miles distant the storm was.

Your Philippine storms were too many elephants away.
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