I was watching the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise while eating my lunch.
At one point, Lt. Reed says "I've never seen lightning in a snowstorm!" to underscore how weird and alien this planet is.
I last watched this when it first aired. As know-it-all college freshmen, my roommate and I argued about whether such a thing were possible - lightning snow.
15 years later, thanks to climate change, we have thundersnowstorms every winter now, three or four times.
@q_aurelius I have experienced thundersnow in the 1980s, it probably has already happened, there isn't anything strange about the physics of that.
But certainly the more extreme climates will give more chances for this to happen.
@Guide42XYZ or rather, literally ignorant, I should say, rather than dumb. And also arrogant.
@q_aurelius Right. TV writers are of course in the business of writing hit-shows, not to be accurate.
@Guide42XYZ No, I don't disagree about the physics.
my point was 1) writer thought it was weird enough to call out 2) I'd never seen it before at 18.
That one of us (I forget which) thought it was impossible, was just us being dumb.