I grew up just South of the U.P. of MI.  I saw a lot of snow and crazy ice storms growing up.  Last weekend I experienced something that not only I but my parents had never seen in all their years, Thunder Snow.

We were right by Lake Michigan and kept hearing forecasts of 5-9 inches of snow for that evening.  That really wasn't a surprise since we were used to getting snow storms at any time especially this time of year.  That night got really weird though.

I was at the hospital visiting my friend.  It got reall dark at about 5PM but I could see it spitting rain a little by the light of the street lights.  Every hour I looked out and at about 7 it started a light dusting of snow.  At 8 we saw a huge flash of lightening and that's when the "Thunder Snow" began.

It was like a thunder and lightening storm but instead of rain it provided us with the biggest, wettest glops of snow I ever saw.  It came down fast and furiously and mixed with the darkness, provided absolutely no visibility.  I experienced some of the most white knuckled driving I had ever done.

The trip from my grandma's house to the hospital took 20 mins.  The trip back took an hour!  I didn't go over 20mph the whole way.  Weird!