[North East England Cold Spell Dicussion]

That is one way to use the cold spell to your advantage Had a lot of snow overnight in Peterlee. The snow stopped in the early hours and this was followed by showers. I could not sleep and at around 4.30am there was a couple of flashes of lightning just before the end of a snow shower.The day was cloudy with odd bright spells and showers, mainly light ones although we had a heavier one with large flakes around 3.30pm.Deep snow on the ground now!

[Thundersnow Reports]

Had some further lightning in snow around 4.30 this morning - one blue and one bright white flash within minutes of each other.

[North East England Cold Spell Dicussion]

Got woken up this morning by some lightning flashes in the early hours, quite bright ones; I think one was around 6.45 this morning, perhaps earlier or later. During the day had some snow showers, mainly light from fragmented clouds; still noting much to speak of so far. I can currently see a bright orange cloud to the north of me.

[North East England Cold Spell Dicussion]

That is an impressive photo - can you add that pic to my thundersnow thread?

[Thundersnow Reports]

Have had further thundersnow tonight over Peterlee, Co. Durham. Happened in the last 15 minutes with about 4 flashes within a few minutes, very impressive. Still snowing heavily at the minute.

It is quite surreal, seeing thick snow on the ground, heavy snow falling and then blue lightning.

[North East England Cold Spell Dicussion]

Had some heavy snow and heard thunder, then a few minutes later had 4 blue flashes within 2 minutes, very impressive for thundersnow. I am in Peterlee, Co. Durham. :lol:

[Thundersnow Reports]

Thank you for all your interesting reports - I hope that we get some more occurrences of thundersnow in the coming week

[December Snow Reports]

Had some hail/snow earlier - some lightning too. Skies have cleared with some cloud and dazzling moonlight over Peterlee, Co. Durham.

[Thundersnow Reports]

The cold spell that the UK is having at the moment is producing snow and hail showers in the North and East of the UK and there have been on occasion some lightning in the heavy hail / snow showers. I have already witnessed a couple of times in the last few hours over my town of Peterlee in County Durham, North East England some flashes of lightning, I guess the weather does not want to be left out of the New Year celebrations with fireworks of its own, lol!

I am guessing that the thundersnow is happening due to the showers coming in from a relatively warmer North Sea.

I know that thundersnow is fairly common in the USA, particularly Lake Effect snow situations. I want to focus more on occurrence of thundersnow in the UK

Have you witnessed thundersnow in the UK?

[North East England Cold Spell Discussion]

Have had a couple of flashes of lightning in the snow / hail showers over Peterlee this evening, the last flash was seen around an hour ago after a rather heavy hail shower; now had a dusting of snow, rather large snowflakes at times.