It's very bright tonight, mostly because the air is thick with vapor. The clouds have been dumping rain, sleet, and snow on us all afternoon and evening. At some point I heard a massive crack outside, which apparently was thunder. I wondered if it were possible to have thunder in a snowstorm (I did look out the window just after the sound occurred, and it was pretty clearly snowing), and my Google search offered this Wikipedia result.
Apparently we're experiencing something known as "thundersnow," a fairly rare weather phenomenon. How exciting to be able to witness something that's allegedly so (okay, relatively) rare! It's clearly something to write home about (as I'm writing this post now), and maybe it'll be one of those boring stories I can spice up for my grandkids later.
