Differential electrical charges within the clouds or between the clouds and the ground cause the lightning. Thunder is caused by the rapid expansion of the air that the lightning passes through, the air expands because it is heated by the lightning to many thousands of degrees very quickly.
Thunder is the sound of lightning hitting the ground, and lightning is just the electric attraction between the cloud and the ground
Actually, thunder is the release of energy and lightning occurs when opposite charges build up in thunderstorm cloud. As a result around 58 are killed and more than 300 are injured due to lightning strikes.
It's when the clouds gather up the energy from the Sun (thats why the Sun soon hides away) and it builds up electricity and they release the energy which is lightning. Clouds don't create thunder, Lightning does because thunder is that sound when lightning occurs.
Thunder is caused by the rapid expansion of the air surrounding the path of a lightning bolt.
From the clouds to a nearby tree or roof, a lightning bolt takes only a few thousandths of a second to split through the air. The loud thunder that follows the lightning bolt is commonly said to come from the bolt itself. However, the grumbles and growls we hear in thunderstorms actually come from the rapid expansion of the air surrounding the lightning bolt.
As lightning connects to the ground from the clouds, a second stroke of lightning will return from the ground to the clouds, following the same channel as the first strike. The heat from the electricity of this return stroke raises the temperature of the surrounding air to around 27,000 C° (48,632 F°). Since the lightning takes so little time to go from point A to point B, the heated air has no time to expand. The heated air is compressed, raising the air from 10 to 100 times the normal atmospheric pressure. The compressed air explodes outward from the channel, forming a shock wave of compressed particles in every direction. Like an explosion, the rapidly expanding waves of compressed air create a loud, booming burst of noise.
Because electricity follows the shortest route, most lightning bolts are close to vertical. The shock waves nearer to the ground reach your ear first, followed by the crashing of the shock waves from higher up. Vertical lightning is often heard in one long rumble. However, if a lightning bolt is forked, the sounds change. The shock waves from the different forks of lightning bounce off each other, the low hanging clouds, and nearby hills to create a series of lower, continuous grumbles of thunder.
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No. Clouds are not solid objects, so they cannot bang into each other. Thunder occurs when lightning instantly superheats the air, causing it to expand. This creates a shockwave that we hear as thunder.
it is due to the particales in the clouds jumping from one side to another but it is also the noise of the lightning
Very dark cloud
Such clouds are called cumulonimbus.
Clouds do not make thunder, clouds produce lightning. The lightning heats up the surrounding air causing loud blasts of thunder.
Thunder and Lightning
Cumulonimbus.
cumulonimbus clouds.Unstable atmospheric conditions lead to the formation of lightning and thunder in cumulonimbus clouds.
Such clouds are called cumulonimbus.
Clouds do not make thunder, clouds produce lightning. The lightning heats up the surrounding air causing loud blasts of thunder.
Cumulonimbus clouds.
No, it doesn't need to rain for thunder and lightning to occur because the thunder and lightning need cold and warm air so they collide. The clouds are like big batteries and the lightning is the short circuit. also the lightning can be between the clouds and it doesn't strike down to the ground. also if the clouds have temperature conditions and it doesn't have to rain it just creates thunder and lightning.
No. Lightning is caused by electrical charges travelling from clouds to the earth, earth to clouds or cloud to cloud. Thunder is caused by lightning.
Thunder and Lightning
Cumulonimbus.
The electricity in the clouds.
Thunder is the sound of lightning. It makes the BOOM sound. Lightning is the yellow squiggly line you see from the clouds. I don't really know how lightning became to be or where it actually comes from but somewhere inside the clouds i guess.
There could be no Thunderstorm without Lightning. The wind cannot blow so fast as to cause thunder. Lightning is caused by electrical charged clouds getting close enough to ground to create the streak of lightning you see. The electrical jumping from cloud to ground creates the thunder.
Yes, A Lightning storm produces lightning, thunder comes with the light. Thunder comes after lightning because sound is slower than light.
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