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thundershower

[ thuhn-der-shou-er ]

noun

  1. a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.


thundershower

/ ˈθʌndəˌʃaʊə /

noun

  1. a heavy shower during a thunderstorm
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of thundershower1

First recorded in 1690–1700; thunder + shower 1
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Example Sentences

The first line of showers and possibly thundershowers could move through late afternoon into early evening.

Some remnant downpours linger, however, from near McLean into downtown Washington and the atmosphere remains humid and unstable enough for widely scattered thundershowers to continue intermittently through around sunset.

Scattered thundershowers are likely both days in the afternoon and evening.

It should get close enough to at least set off thundershowers later in the day.

Some scattered showers and perhaps thundershowers will continue to move through into the overnight hours.

Little or no running water is to be found, and only after a thundershower are the pools filled.

As I sped along, the sky deepened and a severe thundershower threatened.

The day was hot and sultry, though a heavy thundershower somewhat cooled the air.

Within ten minutes a thundershower was falling, and almost as if by magic, all that snow melted away.

It couldn't have been lightning, for there hasn't been a thundershower this season.

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