Winter Season Sans Lightning And Thunder

It just so happened that I was walking down the alley one cold night when the winter snowflakes began to fall. A nephew of mine was walking beside me when all of a sudden, he asked just why we did not hear a thunder prior to the snowfall when it often thunder before the rain falls. I stopped walking for a while, contemplating on that inquiry, and I was dumbstruck that I had to search for the answer on the Internet.

Actually, I was not so sure with what to answer that night. But, if I am not mistaken, we do not hear thunder in winter season. To satisfy the curiosity of my nephew, I looked for the answer online. There, I learned that lightning and thunder often, or do not really appear during winter for the reason that there is less moisture present in the air. Hmmm, that would be a very complicated matter to explain to kid. Anyway, I rather had it put this way. Since lightning requires heat for it to develop, it fails to come about in winter when the heat is frozen. The heat that we are talking of here is the same heat carried by water or the evaporated water that reaches the atmosphere. Remember, when summer, we experience water deficiency. Just where do you think this heated water goes? Up in the atmosphere, of course. There, they still carry the heat that made them evaporate, and when the proper time comes, the become heavy and fall. But, prior to the rain fall, the accumulated heat stored in the water molecules try to escape the jammed pack of clouds, thus, their struggling causes molecules to crash with each other creating lightning and thunder. Now, if you happen to live in the breathtaking Greenland country, you will probably be innocent of thunder. Hey what I meant was, thunder will never occur on your place. So, the snow will fall minus the signal - thunder and lightning.