Sound during thunderstorms?
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Jenny Joanna is right.  Higher humidity, air more dense, better transmission of sound waves.\n\nGo to the extreme, whales can communicate hundreds of miles through the ocean.
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Thunder is the sound of the shockwave caused when lightning instantly heats the air around it to up to 30 000 °C (54 000 °F). That super-heated air expands rapidly, then contracts as it cools. The rapid expansion/contraction generates sound waves, making the sound that is called "thunder."
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BEEP BEEP!!\n\nThunder, lightning and rain, specifically:\nhttp://www.sounddogs.com/subcategories.asp?Type=1&CategoryID=1045  \n\nOther sound effects sites:\nhttp://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm\n\nhttp://www.sounddogs.com/catsearch.asp?Type=1&gclid=CJzHrISV5YUCFSVoSAodBHulRA\n\nhttp://www.onlysoundeffects.com/Results.aspx?query=Sound%20Effects&sessionid=5oupsl45c1ytkgrw5p5qiiji&cc=us&ns=1
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the flash of electricity is lightning... the sound that follow is thunder... storm usually occurs when lightning, thunder, strong wind and rain happen at the same time...
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THUNDERING TYPHOONS.......:)
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You can tell how far away a lightning storm is by listening to the thunder. I can't find it in my science book, but it takes about five second for sound to travel a mile, so watch the lightning, and after it flashes, count how many seconds it is before you hear the thunder. If its like five seconds, its a mile. like that. look at these websites.\n\n\nhttp://www.tornadochaser.com/tormake20.htm\n\nhttp://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/whys/thunder2.htm
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The sound of the raindrops hitting the ground.
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spark,lightning,thunder,shower
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Sounds like a storm in a tea cup
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an Electrical storm involves lightning.\nAnd lightning can travel at the speed of light.\nBecause it mostly is light.\n\nThunder is slower and goes at the speed of sound so we hear the thunder later.
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either sound, waves or air.
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It is possible but it is quite rare. Here's why.\n\nA thunderstorm depends on rapidly rising  moist warm  air to produce the effects we see. These effects are: large volumes of rain in a short period of time, strongly gusting winds, hail, and of course lightning. When conditions aren't right (surface air is too cool and dry) it is impossible for air at the surface to rise fast and high enough to create a thunderstorm cell. Basically in winter the air is not warm or moist enough to produce thunderstorm cells.\n\nFor a deeper explanation check the source site.
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Thunderstorms mostly originate at low pressure areas. The low pressure draws in air and clounds of different electric charges which when they collide gives lightning.
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Lightning creates thunder, by rapidly heating the surrounding air. The heated air expands explosively and compresses the air immediately around the heated area.
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I live in Kansas and have been thru 6 really bad ones, and many warnings that were uneventful when it comes to the funnels themselves...The sky turns dark..hail occurs and heavy rains then a sudden calm happens just before the funnel touches down to the ground..It does sound loud like a freight train but I just say its a tornado sound now..Debris flies thru the air as well..Once saw a cow lifted and thrown onto a farm building roof..amazing but scary!Not something I like to live thru but have...
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I'm in Hampton Roads, VA and we're having one of those gorgeous Spring thunderstorms.  My apartment complex is real junk so none of the gutters work very well and water is overflowing and shooting everywhere.  Of course all the trees are a really nice soft green color, I think because we had a unfortunately mild Winter.  It's so dark, but the lightning is hard to see through all this rain; however, there's some really excellent thunder.
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sure, i like thunderstorms