To estimate your distance from a thunderstorm count the number of seconds between a flash of lightning and the next clap of thunder. Divide your answer by 5.
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When a roar apears count how many seconds,for example 40 seconds,then the storm would be 40 miles away.
You see the flash. You then count the seconds in between the flash and the thunder. For every second, there is one mile.
Actually, this isn't true. It's roughly for every *5* seconds between the lightening and its thunder - that's 1 mile. So for this example, if the thunder came 40 seconds after the lightening flash, the storm would be about 8 miles away.
Sound travels at about 344 metres per second at sea level.
To estimate how far away lighting is away from you, you must ...
count the seconds from when you see the lightning, to when you hear the thunder.
Divide the seconds by 5 and this is approximately how many miles away the lightning is.
As sound travels at about 768 mph or 1,125 feet per second it covers one mile in 4.69333 seconds.
Forget the speed of light as that is near enough instantaneous.
and then count up to 100 and say poo
Well one way of finding out how far lightning is from you is when you see the flash of lightning count seconds until you here the thunder the amount of seconds is equal to the amount of Kilometers
You can approximate how far lightning is from you by counting the seconds between when you see the lightning and when you hear the thunder. Seven seconds equal one mile.
Count the seconds after you see a flash, every second until you hear thunder = how many miles away the strike was
Count the seconds between the lightning and the following thunder. The amount of seconds is said to be approximate to the distance away in miles.
If this is the true way, you can see the lightning, then count how many seconds between the thunder and lightning, then divide that number by 2 or 5, but I'm not sure which one.
You Can hear it.
Nothing. Heat lightning is just lightning too far away to be heard.
First, watch for lightning. The second it hits the ground, starts counting in seconds. Stop when you hear thunder. divide the seconds by 5 to get how many miles away the lightning is. For kilometers, divide the seconds by 3.
You saw heat lightning then. Heat lightning is to far away to hear
As far away as your brain is from your homework
Thunder is the sound caused by lightning, there is always thunder with lightning. If you cannot hear thunder maybe that is because you are too far away from the storm.
Nothing. Heat lightning is just lightning too far away to be heard.
First, watch for lightning. The second it hits the ground, starts counting in seconds. Stop when you hear thunder. divide the seconds by 5 to get how many miles away the lightning is. For kilometers, divide the seconds by 3.
Lightning from a distant thunderstorm too far away for thunder to be heard
then the lightning is 2.78 miles away from you.
Heat lightning is just ordinary lightning that is too far away for you to hear the thunder.
Lightning without thunder is called heat lightning. It occurs when the lightning is too far away for humans to hear the thunder.
You saw heat lightning then. Heat lightning is to far away to hear
To tell how far away a storm is note the seconds between the appearance of lightning and the sound of thunder. Every second between lightning and thunder represents one mile.
You count 1,2,3,4,5, and every 5 seconds, the lightning is 1 mile away. 10 seconds would be 2 miles away, and so on.
As far away as your brain is from your homework
the lightning was 0.8 miles away.
Thunder is the sound caused by lightning, there is always thunder with lightning. If you cannot hear thunder maybe that is because you are too far away from the storm.