Why isn’t there thunder and lightning when it snows?

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Explain it like I’m 5. Pretty much the title. Is it too cold when it snows to see the lightning? Do we just not see/ hear the storm as well?

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Occasionally there is, and it’s called [thundersnow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow). It’s relatively rare since thunderstorms are usually formed at the collision of a warm, moist mass of air with a cooler, denser air mass, and the atmosphere during winter tends to be neither warm nor moist.

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