Thunderstorms and Lightning

Some examples of extreme weather events include hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, heatwaves, droughts, floods, and wildfires. These events can have significant impacts on ecosystems, infrastructure, and human health.

It is difficult to determine the worst thunderstorm ever recorded in the world as severity can vary based on different parameters like wind speed, rainfall, and damage caused. However, the Daulatpur-Saturia tornado in Bangladesh on April 26, 1989, is considered one of the deadliest thunderstorm events in history, with estimated casualties over 1,300 people.

I'm assuming you are speaking of why you wake up in the morning wheezing and or coughing? if you are, it is because of temperature. During the day time, while the sun is out, heat makes the pollen and other stuff rise way up. At night as it cools down all of the stuff in the air sinks down to your level and you breathe all of that nastiness in all night... don't sleep on the floor.

Noone really knows. All we know is that you need a thunderstorm to rotate and an updraft base. However we don't know for sure how exactly tornadoes form but we do know you often need warm moist air and cool dry air. That isn't always the case because tornadoes can occasionally come out of cold fronts.

Tornado Alley does not have a fixed position, but it generally includes parts of the central United States. The intensity of tornado activity in this region can vary from year to year due to various factors like weather patterns and climate change. Changes in the position of Tornado Alley, if any, can impact the frequency and severity of tornadoes in different areas within the region.

Lightning is a collection of electricity caused by positive and negative charges in clouds. When the groups of charges travel through a cloud, one positive charge may hit a negative charge, thus creating lightning. Lightning can happen from cloud to ground, cloud to cloud, and above clouds. It is usually attracted to metal, water, wood, and other tall objects. When lightning strikes, it heats up the air to about the temperature of the Sun, or more. The air then explodes from all the heat which makes the sound of thunder. So, in other words, it is the cause of thunder.

Hail consists of large ice particles that have a layered structure, and are produced by intense thunderstorms that form in a very unstable air mass, that is, one that was relatively cool dry air overlying very warm and humid air. The unstable air is necessary to produce large updraft speeds -- fast enough to keep a developing hailstone from falling to the ground. Some of these updrafts can reach 60 mph or more. Small ice particles that form above the freezing level in the thunderstorm collect rain water on them, forming a water shell that slowly freezes. If these growing hailstones fall into another updraft, they can continue to grow, until they finally become too large for the updraft to carry them, or they get caught up in a downdraft, and they finally reach the ground.

If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Thunder is the sound produced by lightning, so if you can hear it, you are within striking distance of a lightning bolt. It is important to seek shelter immediately in a safe location during a thunderstorm to reduce the risk of being struck by lightning.

Yes, a low frequency wave can have both big and small amplitudes. The amplitude of a wave refers to the maximum displacement of a particle from its equilibrium position, and this can vary regardless of the frequency of the wave.

Sound will travel slower on the moon than on Earth. This is because the moon's lack of atmosphere results in sound waves traveling at a slower pace due to the reduced medium through which they can propagate.

1. Watch the sky for a flash of lightning.
2. Count the number of seconds until you hear thunder. If you have a watch with a second hand or a digital watch that has seconds, begin timing as soon as you see the lightning and stop as soon as you hear the thunder start. If you don't have a watch, do your best to count the seconds accurately. Say "One one thousand, two one thousand etc." in your mind for each second.
3. Divide the number of seconds by 5 to calculate the distance in miles (or divide by 3 for kilometers). In other words if you counted 18 seconds from when you saw the lightning, the strike was 3.6 miles (6 kilometers) from your location. The delay between when you see lightning and when you hear thunder occurs because sound travels much, much more slowly than light. Sound travels through air at about 1100-1200 feet (330-350 meters) per second (depending on altitude, relative humidity, pressure, etc.), which is a little more than one mile per five seconds (one kilometer per three seconds). In comparison, the speed of light is 983,571,058 feet (299,792,458 meters) per second.
   • For example, if lightning strikes a point 1 mile away, you will see the strike approximately .00000536 seconds after the strike while you will hear it approximately 4.72 seconds after the actual strike. If you calculate the difference between these two experiences, a person will hear a strike approximately 4.71999 seconds after the strike actually occurred. Therefore, 5 seconds per mile is a fairly robust approximation.

Cloud-to-ground lightning is considered the most dangerous because it directly strikes the ground and can cause significant damage to buildings, trees, and even people. It is also more likely to cause injury or fatalities compared to other types of lightning strikes. Additionally, cloud-to-ground lightning carries a higher amount of electrical charge and energy compared to other types of lightning, making it more hazardous.

80,000 / minute = 80,000 / (60 seconds). Divide 80,000 by 60, to get cycles per second.

An ultrasound machine uses echoes of high-frequency sound waves to create images of internal body structures like organs, tissues, and blood flow. This non-invasive imaging technique is commonly used in medical diagnostics and monitoring during pregnancy.

The thickest kind of cloud is a cumulonimbus cloud. These clouds are tall and dense, often associated with thunderstorms and severe weather. They can extend vertically for several miles in the atmosphere.

Thunder is what you hear, lightning is what you see, but both are due to electrical discharge in the atmosphere. They can seem to be separated in time to an observer (you see the lightening before you hear the thunder) because of the large difference in the speed of sound and the speed of light. If you are significant distance away (a few miles or kilometers), the light from the discharge will reach you almost instantly, but the sound can take several seconds to arrive. In fact you can measure the distance from you to the lightening in this way: for each second delay between seeing it and hearing it, the lightening bolt is approximately 300 meters, or 1000 ft away.

Thunder is merely the rumbling sound that lightning creates. You hear the thunder after you see the lighting because light travels faster than sound.

Lightning is the light that is emitted, and thunder is the sound.

Hail is formed when clouds, specifically cumulonimbus clouds, have both high altitudes and powerful updrafts within the condensation layer of the cloud. As rain droplets form, they are frozen and then carried aloft again, where their temperature condenses additional water on the exterior, which then also freezes. After an extended period of gaining an increasing number of ice layers, the hailstones at some point are too heavy for the updrafts to lift, and they fall to the ground, sometimes losing layers to melting in the warmer air below.

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Thunder is the sound that lightening makes. Sound travels through air at "the speed of sound." Officially, the speed of sound is 331.3 meters per second (1,087 feet per second) in dry air at 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit). At a temperature like 28 degrees C (82 degrees F), the speed is 346 meters per second. As you can see, the speed of sound changes depending on the temperature and the humidity; but if you want a round number, then something like 350 meters per second and 1,200 feet per second are reasonable numbers to use. So sound travels 1 kilometer in roughly 3 seconds and 1 mile in roughly 5 seconds. When you see the flash of a lightning bolt, you can start counting seconds and then divide to see how far away the lightning struck. If it takes 10 seconds for the thunder to roll in, the lightning struck about 2 miles or 3 kilometers away.

== == Hailstones are raindrops that freeze as they fall through layers of very cold air. When they fall down from the sky hailstones are usually as big as peas. Sometimes they can be as big as tennis balls - so watch out!

A single bold of lightning contains around 5 billion joules of energy. This is enough energy to power an average sized household for an entire month.

Well knowing first hand,

when lightning hits the ground in front of you it is like a white flash... there is really no detail. it actually reminds me of staring at the sun too long because al you really see is white blurry light. But on the other hand, if you are inside and lightning happens to strike outside in your yard it usually has more detail and you can see the different branches on the bolt. Of course it only lasts for a fraction of a second it is really amazing to see.

Of Course it Does

Lightning strikes the ocean all the time. You can see a picture of it happening in the associated link. But you can also see that it's not nearly as common as over land because the storms don't get driven as hard by hot ground.

When a college game is postponed due to lightning, players, officials, and spectators are usually evacuated to a safe location until the storm passes. Once it is determined safe to resume, the game will typically pick up from where it left off or be rescheduled for a different date.

Yes, the Thrust SSC broke the sound barrier on October 15, 1997, becoming the first car to officially achieve this feat. It reached a speed of 763 mph, surpassing the speed of sound (approximately 767 mph at sea level).