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Don Schwenneker
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Chief Meteorologist, WTVD-TV (Durham, NC)
Fayetteville, Raleigh, Durham
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weather floods severe weather hurricanes
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Thunder in the winter wives tale: Is the old saying that it will snow in the next 10 days accurate? Big Weather looked at the data
By Don Schwenneker Verified| WTVD-TV (Durham, NC) Verified RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Here we go again. A storm moved through bringing thunder with it, so everybody starts saying it's going to snow in the next 10 days. But is that old saying based in scientific fact? I previously wrote an article about snow and if, indeed, it does fall 10 days after thunder in the winter. I looked at every snowfall in the past 50 years, went back 10 days, and looked to see if it thundered. Only 2.9 percent of the time it did.
By Don Schwenneker Verified| WTVD-TV (Durham, NC) Verified ABC11 Chief Meteorologist Don "Big Weather" Schwenneker filed the following report:Over the weekend, a sitting Representative in the U.S. House tweeted this out:That generated a ton of messages in my inbox. I even had someone ask me at the grocery store today, "Can we (meteorologists) control Hurricanes?"I want to clear something up right now... We CANNOT control the weather. More specifically, we cannot control the path of a hurricane. And here's why I believe it won't happen for a very long time.
Thunder in the winter wives tale: Is the old saying that it will snow in the next 10 days accurate? Big Weather looked at the data
By Don Schwenneker Verified| WTVD-TV (Durham, NC) Verified RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Here we go again. A storm moved through bringing thunder with it, so everybody starts saying it's going to snow in the next 10 days. But is that old saying based in scientific fact? I previously wrote an article about snow and if, indeed, it does fall 10 days after thunder in the winter. I looked at every snowfall in the past 50 years, went back 10 days, and looked to see if it thundered. Only 2.9 percent of the time it did.
Company Info
WTVD-TV (Durham, NC)
Durham, Fayetteville, Raleigh, United States