where does thunder storm come from?

Answer 1

Thunder storms that are not part of a storm front are formed by rising hot air. That's why there are so many in the afternoon in the summer. As the hot air rises it gets cooler and the moisture starts to condense. When the column of rising air gets really high and cools off it starts back down. This forms two rapidly moving columns of air in different directions. The friction between the columns generates static electricity which is released as lightning.

Answer 2

Thunderstorms… you probably think first of it as an annoying type of weather, producing a lot of noise and flashes, and you risk becoming soaking wet. Even worse, lightning may strike your house and destroy your electric equipment, or it may catch you outdoors… which is very dangerous. But thunderstorms are also fascinating! From the thundercloud, rain may fall by buckets, hailstones the size of peas to coconuts can suddenly come down, and menacing, dark skies can bring strong winds and even violent tornadoes. Lightning may sometimes resemble a disco stroboscope, or crawling across the sky like the branches of a tree. There exists even a strange kind of lightning flashes, far above a thundercloud! Although quite a few people have seen them over the last century, it was only recently that these “sprites” have been recorded by cameras and were accepted as real… What is going on in a thunderstorm that it causes all these very different phenomena? How do thunderstorms develop suddenly out of a nice day? How do we get lightning?

Answer 3

WRONG WRONG WRONG first guy. The energy that creates lightning in a thunderstorm comes from space! Or, if the energy doesn't come from space then it comes from the Earth going up into space.

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Elves and sprites show us that this energy is going high above the atmosphere. Elves are glowing rings that discharge along our ionosphere. This energy is constantly flowing through the atmosphere, but it's only during the particularly big bursts that it will make sprites and elves. This is because there is barely any atmosphere up there and electricity can move around easily where there is less atmosphere.

A world authority on the subject, Dr. Martin Uman, admits that the cause of the charge separation that results in lightning in a thunderstorm is not understood. It is simply a belief that thunderstorms somehow generate lightning.

But there doesn't need to be a thunderstorm to create lightning. There have been MANY well-documented cases of "bolts from the blue" coming out of a cloudless sky. The difficulty in understanding how clouds and our atmosphere generate lightning is eliminated when we understand that this energy actually comes from outside our planet.

Answer 4

When lightening strikes the lightening bolt displaces the air and creates a vacuum in the space that it occupies. After the strike the air rushes back in to the now empty space. That is thunder. The sound that is made by the air molicules colliding with each other as they rush to fill the void. The same thing that happens when a supersonic plane makes a sonic boom. When you see lighening strike, count seconds (one hundred one, one hundred two, etc). The number of seconds you count when you here the thunder tells you about how many miles away the lighening was.

Answer 5

A thunder storm is caused by cold air and hot air colliding causing the storm and the lightning is caused by static electricity between the clouds just as if you take two balloons and rub them together and pull them apart

Answer 6

cold air and warm air in the atmosphere rub together and create static electricity...like rubbing a balloon on your hair, or your slick shoes on a carpet. The static causes a spark (lightning) which splits the surrounding air. As the air CLAPS back together, you hear the noise as thunder.

Answer 7

It does not come from anywhere!
It is created due to electricity potential!