A short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning

Usage examples of thundershower.

Some theorists believe that the abnormally fat raindrops, often the first signs of an approaching thundershower, are thin scatterings of thoroughly molten hail.

Like rain, she thinks, the sizzle of a thundershower and above her the gray-green-yellow sky rumbles smugly to itself.

Outside, the heavy thundershower was over, leaving the dark street hosed-down, clean, glistening under its lights.

Once the skies opened in a thundershower and he raised his face to the sky and let the wind-driven water pound down upon him.

The inhabitants grew accustomed to it, as one grows used to thundershowers in April.

Mile High City, taking us into an almost-perfect weekend with just a touch of some late afternoon thundershowers to liven things up.

On the northwest coast of the United States thundershowers struck without warning, time after time.

In response to Blaize's questions he explained, without much interest, that the erratic climatic pattern of Angalia produced a constantly moving band of thundershowers in the mountains which surrounded this central basin.

They were almost nose to nose, and the tent seemed to be getting hotter and hotter until it was like an attic on a late August afternoon just before the cooling thundershowers hit.

Random, isolated thundershowers showed as thick columns of gray that were embedded in the earth at one end and crowned by seething white billows on the other.