Thunder occurs when clouds collied each other?

Question

if so why these coulds are not comming down to earth if it is heavy to produce that much sound and light?

Answer 1

you are joking aren't you? this is what i tell my 4 year old grandson when he is frightened,but doesnt involve two clouds bumping into each other,clouds are just water vapour,like steam coming out of a kettle when it is boiling.

Answer 2

Ok, im guessing youve learnt about positive and negative electrons, when you rub 2 atoms together, their particles, electrons turn either positive or negative. In this case, the ground is positive, and the clouds negative, but to get this, the clouds water particles have rubbed together - so its kinda like colliding. Then a lightning bolt jumps up from the ground to the cloud, not the other way as thought, and that also creates the noise of thunder.

As light travels around 200,000m/s^2 then sound, that why you see light first then thunder.

Also just as a general fact, every 3 seconds counted after lightining strike means that its 1 km away e.g

*light* 15 second wait *thunder* 15/3 = 5, so it would be 5km away. Thought youd like to know.

Answer 3

Thunder is, even today, not completely understood by modern science. The word usually describes a sonic shock wave caused by the rapid heating and expansion of the air surrounding and within a bolt of lightning. The bolt changes the air into plasma and it instantly explodes causing the sound known as a thunder clap.

This phenomenon occurs at the same time as a lightning flash but a thunderclap is usually heard after lightning is seen because light travels faster (186,000 miles / 299,338 kilometers per second) than sound (around 700 miles / 1,126 kilometers per hour but varies depending on temperature, humidity and air pressure.) In very close proximity to the lighting strike, sound and light can be heard and seen almost simultaneously.

Answer 4

No, thunder is not the sound of colliding clouds. Where did you get that idea? Thunder results from lightning; the sudden expansion and collapse of heated air in a lightning strike produces a very sharp "crack" sound, which echoes over the terrain, and that is the sound of thunder.

Answer 5

cloud does no make any sound whilst there's a favorable cost in a cloud and a destructive cost comes close to it then the destructive cost runs to wards advantageous cost and this we see as lightning. Lightning heats close by air to approximately 10,000 °C (18,000 °F) very nearly right now, it particularly is merely approximately two times the temperature of the sunlight’s floor. The heating creates a marvel wave it particularly is heard as thunder

Answer 6

No it occurs when two drastically different temperatures collide, temperature has no weight. The lightening bolt is so hot compared to the air around it that it makes a huge pop!

Answer 7

Thunder occurs after lightning has split the atmosphere

so Thunder and lightning - should really be

Lightning and Thunder