Snowstorms, blizzards, cold fronts, and it's only January.

We are bundling up and taking a look at big winter weather.

I'm Bethany Van Delft.

It's Tuesday, January 18th, and this is the 10 News.

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From drivers stranded in the snow in Virginia to record-breaking snow in California, winter weather has hit the U.S. from coast to

coast. 10 news correspondent Sarah Namyis is here with an update about what's in store for the rest

of the winter. Mother Nature has been putting on quite a show in recent weeks.

Big weather events have been causing some big problems and some unusual phenomena as well.

We typically think of thunderstorms as something that can ruin a perfect beach day in the summer.

But it turns out that thunderstorms can happen in the winter, too.

People in the Pacific Northwest had a front row seat to the rare phenomenon known as

thunderstorm.

Thunder snow can happen during a winter storm when cold snow and warmer sleep, high in the clouds, collide.

That collision of cold air on top of warm air and moisture can cause static charges.

And voila! With enough static charge, lightning is created. Pretty neat if you ask me,

but make sure you follow the same safety rules in thunderstorm that you would in any summer

thunderstorm. Okay. Meanwhile, in the mid-Atlantic, a major snowstorm caused a huge pile up of traffic on

Interstate 95 in Virginia.

Hundreds of people were stranded in their cars overnight as snow made for treacherous

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