does anyone here count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder?
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I taught that trick to my children as a way to help them through storms, thast way they are waiting for the next crash of thunder, and can count as it gets closer then moves away..I may be a nut too, but I love storms, tonights were awesome!
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Actually, there are 3 kinds of lightning strikes:  Cloud to cloud, Ground to Cloud and Cloud to ground.  So the answer to your question is yes.
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As soon as you see the flash of lightning, start counting, when you hear the boom of thunder, that is how many miles apart each is from each other.  Such as:  you see lightning, you count to 10 and hear the thunder.  Then the lightning and thunder are 10 miles apart.
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Oh i love that! its like so peacful and the wind is blowing your hair back..... oh i just luv it! but my absolute favorite part of the storm is the thunder and lightning!
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1 second = 1 000 000 microseconds
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You're really close! The answer is actually 1:03:11. You were off one minute because you forgot to borrow a minute from the 34 so you could subtract the seconds.
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Look, lightning and thunder HAPPEN at the same time. Lightning causes the air to displace and when it contracts again (immediately) you get thunder, the sound of air filling a gap. You see lightning first because it is traveling @ 180,000 mps, thunder travels at the speed of sound (depends on where you live). You can generally determine how far away you are from the place of origin by counting 1 one-hundred, 2 one hundred, etc until you hear thunder and divide that number by two. That is how many miles away you are.\n\nBTW, if you see lightning and hear thunder at the same time, the event is right where you are!
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lmao...lmao id say 10 times a second. dude i have no idea good luck on that one lol
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning.htm
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There are no uses for lightning I've seen in my research. However, I did discover the Empire State Building has been struck by lightning over 100 times per year, and the Benjamin Franklin has a part in something that was described on the wikipedia about like static electricity only on a much grander scale.
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maybe someone got shot right outside your window while it was raining.. perfect cover\n\nNo, really the different sounds are created by different frequencies and wavelentghs of the vibrations caused by the electricity splitting the air. This can vary from the sonic boom you hear when a F15 crosses Mach 1 .. to the crack noise you hear with a whip. As for the loudness, it is a function of intensity and proximity.. so yea the same lightning will be louder when its closer.. but it could also be a very strong lightning far away.. the way you could tell would be the difference in light and sound... \n\ni hope this helps
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NO.\n\nIt is only an effect of a cloud being illuminated by a distant lightning flash.
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This is called the thunder clap headche.  Look this up on Google
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Thunder occurs immediately but because sound travels at about 1000 feet/sec and light travels at 186,300 miles per sec, we see  the lightning first and then wait to hear the thunder. \n\nThe difference in time between an observer seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder is based on that difference and the distance from the source of the lightning. \n\nFor example, if we see the lightning and then one second later we hear the thunder, the lighting occured at about 1000 feet away from our location.  Five seconds would be approx. one mile away.  The farther away it is, the greater the time difference will be.  \n\nThunder is caused by the super-heating of the air molecules that are conducting the electrical energy.  As Electricity flows, it heats up the air causing it to superheat locally.  This heating causes a sonic boom to occur.
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Your camera or your reaction is probably not fast enough to get the picture- if you mean why can't you take the picture, but if you just need photos of lightning strikes, here you go: http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=UTF-8&fr=slv8-&p=lightning
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You wouldn't call it lightning, because that's what you see. You could call it "the sound of lightning" but we are generally pretty lazy - and that's too long!
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Thunder is the sound made when lightning sweeps through the air, then back, and then the air collides together, making the "boom".  Lightning is a bright flash of electricity.