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Minnesota is one of several states in a Midwestern belt that experiences a weather phenomenon called "thundersnow" -- when lightning flares and thunder rumbles in the midst of a snowstorm. Meteorologists really don't know a lot about thundersnow, and that's why a University of Missouri researcher has just been awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to find out more. Patrick Market has been studying thundersnow for the past four years, and spoke to 

Minnesota is one of several states in a Midwestern belt that experiences a weather phenomenon called "thundersnow" -- when lightning flares and thunder rumbles in the midst of a snowstorm. Meteorologists really don't know a lot about thundersnow, and that's why a University of Missouri researcher has just been awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to find out more. Patrick Market has been studying thundersnow for the past four years, and spoke to All Things Considered host David Molpus about the study.


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