THUNDERSNOW!!! Epic Unexpected Portland Snowstorm 2017

[@charlesloftis2920]

Mark, thank you for filming and posting this. Watched it from start to finish and could've watched for hours. Eerily satisfying! Glad you are a weather enthusiast who can now check off "Thunder Snow" from your list. It was a beautiful scene in your yard, Man.

[@MilwaukeeMark]

Charles Loftis For sure! Thank you!

[@auroralights1797]

LOVE the sound of the train whistle in the background @ 6:48~~!!~~

[@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938]

Twice in my life...once when i was a kid delivering newspapers...about 5:45 am...always been a weather nerd...sky was a sickly green...just two or three flashes and a boom or two...confused the heck out of me...got over a foot of snow, school canceled and i dug out a kid’s weather book and found out about thundersnow...weirdest and coolest thing i ever experienced...🤔...in a meteorlogical sense that is...then a few years ago during a monster Nor’easter, brought 36”, my second one...late at night...same thing...snow has to be coming down at lest 2” an hour for it to work...it was cool...love your reaction...reminded me of Jim Cantore...from Weather Channel...😊

[@MilwaukeeMark]

That is so freaking rad!! I'm really hoping for another whopper of a snowstorm in Portland again this year. Love those extreme weather moments!

[@FurrKnight]

"thundersnow?" @ 10:00 I'd still watch the whole thing again honestly, it was really beautiful and peaceful. Liked

[@EFFbriskethead]

thunders ow is awesome!

[@Debbie-su6qv]

Really peaceful to watch and listen to, so relaxing :)

[@rehanna8835]

Me: *playing in the snow as always* *hears thunder* SHIIIT

[@rippedupsoso5420]

I hate names and stuff I don’t even get snow

[@iceresistance]

Me: Playing in snow. *Lightning* RUN INSIDE!

[@kolpos-v5s]

East Greece has a lot of thunersnows every year :) It's amazing.

[@cheese-qw9vd]

I was in Vancouver, got 8 inches. Couldn't believe how much light reflected off the snow, it looked like daytime. Awesome storm.

[@clowdiedays]

cool lightning, also GOD THE TREES LOOK SO PRETTY

[@ranger0wnegg]

I remember this, the official forecast that day was 1"-3". ended up with 14"

[@michaelrajkovich2416]

I live in Beaverton and I saw the lightning twice. I could hear the thunder in your video but it was distant. I was out in the snow when it took place. I thought at first it was a transformer but I saw a flash of light followed by another within 30 seconds. I didnt really hear thunder but it was windy but I heard a lot of transformers popping but I assume once or twice it was thunder. Freakin bad ass video dude!!!

[@MilwaukeeMark]

Michael Rajkovich Your description matches my video pretty closely. You can see a second flash after the first and it's clear it happened miles away. In fact, I saw the thunderstorm potential on radar over Beaverton and that's why I started recording! Awesome independent verification!

[@michaelrajkovich2416]

That is awesome!!! I have heard of thundersnow and know it can happen but have never experienced it. Most people I know dont even know it exists!!! Truly amazing!!!

[@TheLQGaming]

You know snow is heavy when it starts settling on the power lines. Very rare in southern England where I'm from. Nice video :)

[@angelahorgan8736]

Watch and listen from about 9.5 min. to 10.5 min and you will see lightening and hear thunder. Turn your volume up! Very cool video and thanks for sharing!

[@IanReineck]

Mvp

[@PecanBaby...]

I just watched you're thunder snow and you look like you're having great fun, so I just had to subscribe to your channel. Hello from UK. 😊

[@MilwaukeeMark]

pecan baby 3107 Awesome! Thanks! Hello from Portland, Oregon.

[@julianismyson]

Such a clever play on words. I just moved here less than two years ago. I lived in Juneau Alaska for a year. This looks much like Juneau in November. sooooo pretty though

[@edek8470]

Have seen and heard it twice..first was good few years ago - Friday night, went clubbing and it was bone dry, didn't even feel that I cold? DJ later announcing heavy snow out! We carried on til 2am only to leave and find a good 18cm of deep powdery snow, still ongoing! Suddenly the skies lit up and boom the thunder. It sounded like a drum echoing across the sky almost hollow sounding? Then a second big flash... Incredible night. Drive home proved tricky too in all that snow. Second not quite dramatic, daytime cold front passage ushered in much colder air, typical rain to snow event in literally minutes! Few flashes then a few cm of the white stuff. Cheers for sharing ; ) that snow sure was torrential lol..

[@MilwaukeeMark]

Epic!!

[@michaelhoskins832]

Remember that snowstorm all too well.Was living in downtown Portland,OR at the time.Saw a flash of lightning,and then looked out and saw the snow pouring down.Quite wild.

[@chinlesswonderkid]

Are there a lot of lights on in the neighbourhood (If this is a neighbourhood)? Or are ights just very strong? Seems be very bright sky? Might it have anything to do with amoount of snow falling?

[@catsup27]

Which Portland is this? Portland Oregon or Portland Maine?

[@MilwaukeeMark]

Portland Oregon

[@sharppointy1]

I love your excitement!!

[@patpat8195]

Beautiful. Quiet relaxing perfect. Wish I lived there. I'd be happy I wish it could. Rain. Or snow forever cause it brings piece and it's beautiful thanks for this vidio with out anoying music it's so soothing

[@skylilly1]

Nice snowy video

[@terry1028]

Yo I would love to look at those clouds for hours It's so beautiful

[@JDoutdoors2]

Wow that is amazing. Gotta love oregons weather.

[@pieroelias3545]

Summer un Oregón get very hot

[@lucasbrown712]

I saw this a couple years ago, i had no idea it was so rare.

[@cellinimedusa4679]

Beautiful

[@TypicalAce]

Looks beautiful!

[@jasonwagoner3201]

haha that gasp when the sky lit up, how excited you got. :P nerd! hehe this is an awesome video!

[@MilwaukeeMark]

Jason Wagoner I am def nerdin it in the video. I am a nerd IRL though so there's that.

[@jasonwagoner3201]

haha its awesome. it made me get nerdy and i ended up showin my brother the video :P

[@SamZarifYT]

A week org two ago I was playing in heavy snow (I wasn’t the only person outside in the neighbor hood and lightning struc’ a house near me and made a loud boom, I got excited and ruined around like Jim cantore

[@SamZarifYT]

There was 11strikes that I saw

[@jacobwadley9583]

We are about to have another one

[@weatherstorms]

Which Portland? Oregon, or Maine?

[@MilwaukeeMark]

thundersnowstorm Oregon! :)

[@peterfabris8976]

Is this Maine or Oregon?

[@dalelawrence1096]

Are you sure that wasn't a transformer exploding...or do they even exist anymore? Weird to hear the sirens/alarms after that...

[@MilwaukeeMark]

Dale Lawrence I definitely thought I heard thunder in the moment but it was distant. That's why there's the pause in my excitement. No denying the lightning though. Power remained on in the neighborhood but you're right, anything is possible.

[@Mr_bean69420]

Why the snow sound like mini hail

[@MrGrumpygit488]

Is this guy related to Jim Cantore?

[@ronaldshank7589]

You'd almost think so! He's very enthusiastic about the lightning and thunder.

[@tropicaoptica]

Anyone complaining there is no thunder you need to wear some earbuds with bass. Its there.

[@OmegaMapDesign]

That's what makes Thundersnow so impressive and such a bad name all at once. The snow muffles the sound of thunder for miles so the lightning is almost silent.

[@iceresistance]

10:09 Lightning.

[@darren64yt99]

hi

[@paulsmallriver6066]

aahhhhh, so peaceful and pleasant.

[@patcola7335]

I saw this as a kid in the 70s. Nothing new. Maybe one flash in a storm. I've never experienced an actual thunderstorm while it snowed though. Seems to be happening more in some places. Signs in the heavens.

[@rocco2879]

Spettacolo assolutamente bellissimo, mi rende molto triste che questi scenari bellissimi spariranno per colpa nostra, per come abbiamo rovinato la terra e il clima. Che peccato. Sperando ha un miracolo che cambi le cose.

[@tropicaoptica]

This is the thundersnow version of "double rainbow". Fucking awesome.

[@MilwaukeeMark]

MORELIFE Yes! I'm waiting to be the next double rainbow guy. u thought the same thing lol.

[@tropicaoptica]

Was it intentional tho? You seemed quite candid. But I immediately thought this needs to be viral... something they post on the Today Show haha.

[@MilwaukeeMark]

MORELIFE Yup, this is the real me.

[@misskhanitthakumrong3901]

😻💞Hello

[@aktunka]

I hate to have to point this out, but what you recorded would more accurately be called "Lightning Snow". For it to be thundersnow, we really would need to hear thunder. Unless there was thunder and your camera just didn't pick up the sound?

[@MilwaukeeMark]

I thought the same thing and I waited to hear the thunder. I'm pretty sure the thunder is there, but if not, SNOW LIGHTNING!!!

[@sportscarclinic]

I hate to point out that it is 'technically' referred to as "thundersnow" and it was (always is) accompanied by thunder. If you are going to take the time to correct someone, at least know what you are talking about.

[@JohnnyTriplesticks]

If it weren't for the thunder you can hear in the video, you would have a point.

[@tropicaoptica]

Uh, I heard the thunder buddy

[@Catloverplayer]

I heard thunder after the lightning flash.

[@evflyguy]

It was a transformer exploding. Not lightning. See my video.

[@MilwaukeeMark]

NitzkaClips Yeah that does look convincing, not gonna lie.

[@Bobby_Duku]

I seen thundersnow today

[@ericascali5427]

Tanta

[@Wartime-di2pw]

10:07

[@SagebrushRambles]

I was enjoying the video until the nuthead jumped out and skeered me :|