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When there is a lightning storm lightning can travel 10 to 12 miles from the storm! For every 5 seconds that go by before you hear the clap of thunder, that’s one mile.
“Lightning - National Weather Service.” Lightning …What You Should Know and Best Practices to Stay Safe!, National Weather Service, https://www.weather.gov/media/ilm/Lightning_NWSILM.pdf.
https://www.weather.gov/media/ilm/Lightning_NWSILM.pdf
Lightning originates around 15,000 to 25,000 feet above sea level when raindrops are carried upward until some of them convert to ice.
Lightning results from the buildup and discharge of electrical energy between positively and negatively charged ice particles within the storm cloud.A lightning bolt contains as much current as three hundred thousand amperes and around three hundred million volts.
“Questions and Answers About Lightning and Thunder.” Questions and Answers about Lightning and Thunder, https://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/infelectrical/inflightning.html.
https://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/infelectrical/inflightning.html
The strangest colors reported are instances of pink or green lightning seen during snowstorms. The unique sky color is caused as snowflakes refract and reflect the white bolt in a unique way.
Bacca, Ellen. “Ask Ellen: Why Does Lightning Flash in Different Colors?” WOODTV.com, WOODTV.com, 19 Aug. 2021, https://www.woodtv.com/news/why-lightning-flashes-in-different-colors/#:~:text=Perhaps%20the%20strangest%20colors%20reported,bolt%20in%20a%20unique%20way.
Lightning can travel 10 to 12 miles from a thunderstorm.
“Questions and Answers About Lightning and Thunder.” Questions and Answers about Lightning and Thunder, https://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/infelectrical/inflightning.html.
Thunder is caused by lightning, which is essentially a stream of electrons flowing between or within clouds, or between a cloud and the ground. This causes the column to vibrate like a tubular drum head and produces a tremendous crack. As the vibrations gradually die out, the sound echoes and reverberates, generating the rumbling we call thunder.
“Thunder.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, Mar. 2021, p. 1. EBSCOhost, discovery.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=8c17e763-6e60-3fa4-bb88-85f1484c3abd.
FUN FACTS
1. We can hear the thundering booms 10 miles or more distant from the lightning that caused it.
2. Thunder is sound produced along a path of a lightning flash, caused by the rapid heating and expansion of the adjacent air