Penny Farthing wrote:
About 2 years ago on a Wednesday evening about 5pm we had a thunder
storm with snow. I had never seen thunder and lightning before with
snow in all my (quite long) life.

This was in North Surrey by the way near Croydon and Sutton.

Does anybody on this friendly group remember it? Is it really that
unusual? What caused it?

Penn

ISTR discussion about this - indeed Google groups finds:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....b25b5d4e3ca465

http://snipurl.com/olvo