Everyone now knows what gets meteorologist Jim Cantore excited. One word: thundersnow. The Weather Channel personality clearly not only loves his job, but also loves weather, and apparently the wilder the weather, the more he loves it.
Thundersnow is exactly what it sounds like: thunder and lightning during a snowfall. Cantore, who has worked at the Weather Channel since 1986 after graduating from Lyndon State College, is one of the most familiar faces to Weather Channel fans. He is the guy the Weather Channel typically turns to in wild weather scenarios.
Thundersnow is pretty rare, and well, when it happens it's an amazing sight as Cantore shares. His reaction to it during his weather report Saturday night in Plymouth, Mass. pretty much sums it up.
Even with the sound off you don't need much explanation to understand how he feels about thundersnow. Apparently one of the strikes was a twofer, and Cantore has experienced thundersnow at least five times during his career.
After the crack and strike, Cantore goes a bit crazy. Watch with your own eyes:
"Oh yes! Yes! Yes!" Cantore yells. "We got it baby! We got it! We got it! Woo! We got it! Listen to that! Listen to that! Oh baby!"
"Number five, Number five, that's number five baby. Yes, Yes."
"You can have your 500-million jackpot in Powerball, or whatever the heck it was, but I'll take this, baby!" yells an exuberant Cantore. "Yes, yes, yes baby," he revels in the video.
"It's just incredible. I cannot believe the atmosphere is putting on a show like this morning," he says, calling it the "icing on the cake" given the weather conditions lately in the northeast.
Many people not only enjoy his Weather Channel reports but also follow him religiously on Facebook as he is an enthusiastic social networker.
At one point Cantore describes the weather conditions as "getting puked on," which most people likely wouldn't be as excited about as he is in the video.
It's safe to say that not every Bostonian was happy to see 13 inches of snow much less hear thunder and see lightning.
