This is called thunder, and results from a rapidly expanding pressure wave, as a narrow column of air is heated to thousands of degrees by the lightning's electrical energy.
If you hear the thunder almost at the same time as the lightning flash - the storm is directly overhead. Usually - the sound of thunder arrives a few seconds after the lightning, because light travels much faster than sound.
Light travels faster than sound. This causes the lightning flash to be seen first, with thunder taking longer to be heard.
Speed of light travels faster than speed of sound
No, the two are quite different. The main difference is lightning is light, thunder is sound. Lightning is an electric charge that can come from a cloud for various reasons. Thunder is the sound made by lightning. Since sound travels slower than light, lightning comes first, thunder second.
then the lightning is 2.78 miles away from you.
No. Lighting produces a flash. Thunder is the sound the lightning produces.
The thunder is the sound of lightning but you only hear the thunder after the flash because lightning is faster than the speed of sound.
A lightning flash travels at the speed of light. The sound of thunder travels much slower. Therefore, we see the flash before we hear the thunder.
Thunder.
If you hear the thunder almost at the same time as the lightning flash - the storm is directly overhead. Usually - the sound of thunder arrives a few seconds after the lightning, because light travels much faster than sound.
Yes - since light travels faster than sound, you will see the lightning flash before hearing the sound of the thunder.
If thunder and lightning occur together close to you, you are dangerously close to a lightning bolt.
If thunder and lightning occur together close to you, you are dangerously close to a lightning bolt.
Sound (thunder) travels much much slower than light (lightning flash).
It's neither because it's an erroneous statement. Thunder is the sound made by lightning; it therefore cannot precede the lightning flash because the lightning flash travels at the speed of light and the thunder travels much more slowly at the speed of sound.
In simple terms... light travels much faster than sound. We see the lightning flash first, followed by the sound when it finally reaches us
not if you are standing far enough away and not at all the sound of the lightning is thunder but if you were standing directly underneath it the sound would come at the exact moment of the light