freaking out when there was thunder snow going on it is an interesting phenomenon. i first experienced it when i was a college freshman in lake ontario. and you get a very vigorous storm. normally in these storms you have low lying clouds. you have very little updraft. but when you have a strong storm that updraft really gets going. so you we had these clouds building up and as the updrafts happen you get electrical charges between the updrafts and that's when you get the lightning and the thunder snow. this storm has been generating that from albany new york into new england. it is a mast mover. already we are seeing the western edge of this starting to pull into central new jersey. before long it will be over. it has already dropped seven to eight inches of snow in parts of pennsylvania. into new york state, montague, albany. brookfield, ten inches of know. lag, 9.5. nine inches of snow officially