People who care about the English language have only just recovered from the ‘weather bomb’… and now this (Picture: Getty)

Britain is still reeling from the ‘weather bomb’ this week – now people are going to have to get to grips with another outlandish weather term, after ‘Thundersnow’ battered Scotland yesterday.

What next? Stomdrizzle? Hail bullets?

Yesterday, Thundersnow – a rare phenomenon where thunder and lightning appear during a snowstorm – was spotted near Glasgow.


It came as a new wave of bad weather left large parts of the North of England were battered by snow.

Lightning storms in the Highlands left up to 27,000 homes without power.

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The recent weather has led to speculation there could be a white Christmas, with James Madden, from Exacta Weather, saying it was a ‘good possibility’.



‘There is a substantial risk for a major snow event with some potentially widespread blizzard conditions throughout the early to middle part of next week,’ the forecaster told the Daily Telegraph.

‘This also opens the door to a good possibility of an official white Christmas, even in parts of the south.’