Snow Or Thunderstorms? Which Better?

[Lauren]

I think I'd have to go with thunderstorms. Whilst i love love love snow, thunderstorms just make me more excited and make me feel alive. Plus I love that if you get a proper summer thunderstorm, you get beautiful hot sun either side, so you can enjoy a big storm and BBQ in the same day.

[Isolated Frost]

Snow by a fair margin. Not only do I get all nostalgic over snow- I love the build-up even more, especially on these forums! Living by the North Sea helps I guess. Also, you get the lasting effects of snow and the enjoyment it brings- being out during snowfall is epic, but being out during storms is noticeably more dangerous and less fulfilling imo.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Snow by a fair margin. Not only do I get all nostalgic over snow- I love the build-up even more, especially on these forums! Living by the North Sea helps I guess. Also, you get the lasting effects of snow and the enjoyment it brings- being out during snowfall is epic, but being out during storms is noticeably more dangerous and less fulfilling imo.

Yes the pre snow build up on these forums is very exciting, miles more members during a snowy spell, nearly broke the record again this Feb, only 12 short of the record on 5th Jan 2010, a very snowy day

[March Blizzard]

Thunderstorms for me. Some of my most fond weather memories were during thunderstorms. I remember once being in awe at a bucket filling up in seconds in torrential rain as it was falling off a neighbours gutterless roof.

The best lightning display ive seen was at night in Zante, Greece. Sitting on a beach deck chair watching lightning strike the sea only a few miles out but in relative calm was eerie but exciting. The next day literally hundreds of jellyfish washed up on the beach.

The closest ive been to a lightning strike is 100 yards or so, it hit the telephone communications tower that was just behind my old house, you could actually hear the electricty in the lightning - a sound I'll never forget. I was inside at the time but a few of my friends were playing football on the astro turf pitch about 3/4 mile up the road and said that lightning hit one of the floodlights. I wouldn't have believed them if i didn't see it for myself on the tower!

Most recently I was only about 1/4 mile from the infamous "Stockport tornado" when it struck Heaton Moor in November last year. Thankfully i was in my work van at the time when the sky went a shade of black, rain and hail rendered my wiper blades useless and the wind made my steering feel light. Every car had to put full beam lights on; I've never seen it so dark during the daytime and suspect i never will again. At the time i obviously didn't know what had happened, but when i saw the news later that day i said to myself - "Well, that explaines it!". I actually count myself lucky i was so close to the action!.

Also, it's hard to beat the ominous feeling when a good thunderstorm is brewing up and the way it breaks the humidity before it to leave a fresh feel to the air afterwards.

Snow has its charms but for sheer excitement, for me, it doesn't beat a good thunderstorm.