2006-09-07 08:50:53 · 10 answers · asked by Tom 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Yes. Thunder is the result of the atmospheric disturbance caused by the electrical energy of the lightning bolt.
2006-09-07 14:30:16 · answer #1 · answered by ezachowski 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well technically yes...but then you run into the age old question....if a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound. if the lightning is extremely far away the sound of the thunder will peter out because it does not travel as fast or as far as lightning does....so by the time the sound should have gotten to you....you don't hear it. so in your prospective it didn't make a sound....or did it?
2006-09-07 16:00:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anthony V 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is just a gigantic spark.
It cracks, but because the spark is so long, sound reaches you from different parts of it at slightly different times, providing the reverberation.
As example - if lightning strikes 100 metres from you, you hear that sound almost instantly, but if that lightning started from 2000 metres above you, the sound from its starting point will take about 6 seconds. Therefore the thunder will reverberate for six seconds as sound reaches you from every part of its path at slighly different instances.
Then of course, there are echoes that can make the thunder seem to go on for much longer.
Of course, the spark itself goes from cloud to ground almost instantly. It's only the sound that has a delaying effect.
2006-09-07 17:12:33 · answer #3 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, but sometimes it's too far away to hear.
The rule is lightning first... then 5 seconds per mile for the thunder.
2006-09-07 15:56:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No thunder never accompanies lightening. Lightening travels at the speed of light. Thunder travels at the speed of sound.
Thus thunder follows lightening.
2006-09-07 15:57:35 · answer #5 · answered by curious 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes - thunder is the sound of lightening. Because of the high heat of the lightening it makes a spark in the sky and creates a noise - thunder
2006-09-07 15:53:13 · answer #6 · answered by bridgey 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is no "e" in lightning. Lightening is something totally unrelated to lightning
2006-09-07 16:00:29 · answer #7 · answered by rules27 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yea it always does.God created it so...to be together...like a man and his wife...in the sacred covenant of marriage.No matter what people may do to void those wonderful works of God,they just can't!
2006-09-07 16:14:35 · answer #8 · answered by child of God 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
not always, that depend on the power of the lightning..
2006-09-07 15:59:21 · answer #9 · answered by brianlove_s 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Not always. Certainly not consistently in the same instant.
2006-09-07 15:55:42 · answer #10 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋