Freezing Fog/Thunderstorms

Hello all,

Tonight I witnessed something that I've never seen before: Thunder-freezing rain. Has anyone ever heard of this before? Can a thunderstorm happen while in the midst of sub 20° F weather? I thought it had to be much warmer for a thunderstorm to occur. While I was making dinner tonight, Ali came to me and asked it if I saw the lightning outside. I dismissed it and said it was probably someone's headlights reflecting off of a neighbor's window. Then a few minutes later it happened again, but this time I heard the thunder roll. I must have confused it with the sound of a snow-plow the first time. Finally, I went to the window and found watched the sky and there it was. Lightning in the middle of a freezing rain storm. Now who would have thought that could happen.

The second strange weather event that happened while on my drive home. I know that fog is just the presence of moisture at the surface . And I know that moisture when cooled enough turns to ice. So, it should not have surprised me to find that fog will freeze, but it did. On my way home from work the fog over the Peso bridge was very thick. I had my windshield wipers on and soon had to turn the defrost on to melt the ice that was sticking to my wiper blades. It was just weird. The cloud I was driving in was freezing to my car as I pushed my way through it. It was just one of those days that I learned something new about the weather.

-Andy