thundersnow seems to be the word of the moment, at the moment.
Yes, I've heard a number of conversations with it.
David Letterman used it the other night, asking what it
was, odd, since he used to be a meteorologist.
Maybe it is a new or forgotten meteorological phenomenen. This December we had not only a huge amount of snow, we also had heavy snowfall with thunder and lightning. I don't remember having seen this before. I think we named it 'dondersneeuw' as well.
The CNN meteorologist, R. Wolf, was forecasting it last
week for the New England states. I've experienced it here.
wikipedia says thundersnow's rare, so we must have hit the yearly average already...
thanks for the link, t. though I can't say I love the page of googleads before the content...
There are some interesting other things on that site. Thanks.