{"id":1918,"date":"2011-02-01T23:09:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T04:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:07","slug":"snowpocalypse-2011-february-1-930-pm-thundersnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"Snowpocalypse 2011: February 1, 9:30 p.m. Thundersnow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning and thunder here and the snow is falling fast.  Not a weather phenomena you see every day, so glad I saw it before I went to bed.  Neat ABC article on thundersnow <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wild-winter-weather-thundersnow-rare\/story?id=12777219\">here<\/a> points out that only .07 percent of snowstorms produce thundersnow.  Also, per this article and the storm warning from the National Weather Service, thundersnow storms tend to produce the largest and most rapid amounts of snow.<\/p>\n<p>Pic outside the front door, without a flash at 9:30 p.m.:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1919\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1919\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-930-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Not a whiteout, but definitely poor visibility\" title=\"2-11-930\" width=\"456\" height=\"342\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1919\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-930-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-930.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not a whiteout, but definitely poor visibility<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the same view, same time, with a flash which helps pick out the actual snow:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1920\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1920\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-930flash-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"View outside the front door, with the flash on\" title=\"2-11-930flash\" width=\"456\" height=\"342\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1920\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-930flash-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-930flash.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View outside the front door, with the flash on<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Also, we lost power for just a second, flashed off and then back on, right before we noticed the lightning and heard the thunder.  We temporarily lost internet access too, but its all good now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning and thunder here and the snow is falling fast. Not a weather phenomena you see every day, so glad I saw it before I went to bed. Neat ABC article on thundersnow here points out that only .07 percent of snowstorms produce thundersnow. Also, per this article and the storm warning from the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[489,495,2869,491,490,498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}