Why does lightning always come before thunder?
Have you ever really noticed that thunder no matter what always comes after lightning? Why is this? Well when lighning forms and strikes it can reach anywhere from fifteen to sixty thousand degrees fahrenheit! That's hotter than the sun's surface! So what happens is lightning heats up the air very quickly and when the air is heated up like that, is quickly expands and then contracts. When this happens you hear a very long boom it the strik was near u, but only a little rummble if it far away. You may say well this isn't all true because i have seen lightning but heard no thunder. This is because you were to far away to hear the sound waves.No matter where lighning strikes thunder will always be after it.
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you have great detail about how lighting can cause thunder. By the lighting heating up the air causing it make a load sound.Facts of the thunder was intresting.
ReplyDeleteYou acully hear the lightning not thunder. the reason that happens is because lightning causes the thunder. Thunder is a secondary action in thunderstorms. Lighning is a number one reaction to thunderstorms
ReplyDeleteAlthough both occur at the same time, we see the lighting first, then hear the thunder. That is because light travels faster than sound.
ReplyDeleteI thought the lightning created the thunder when it cut through the atmosphere