Thunder Snow?

I have lived in NH for 37 years and for the first 30 or so I can't recall ever having a snow storm with thunder and lightning, but the past 7 years or so, particularly the last 2, there have been multiple storms just like that, including this morning. Can I just say how incredibly weird it is laying in bed listening to the silent snow falling (for those of you in non snow areas - snow kind of muffles all the ambient sound, so it's a special kind of quiet you only get when it's snowing) when all of a sudden the room lights up and a couple seconds later there's the boom of late summer. I think it's just really, really weird.