way do we hear thunder and lightning?

Answer 1

I usually 'see' lightning. OTOH, if you're close enough, you -can- hear a 'sizzle' as the discharge happens ☺

Lightning is just a *very* large spark resulting from the accumulation of charge in the atmnosphere caused by fast updrafts of air. This 'spark' causes the air to become heated and the shock wave of superheated air that radiates outwards is what we hear as 'thunder'.


Doug

Answer 2

We don't actually hear the lightning, but rather the result of lightning. Lightning is caused by charges in the air being aligned with opposite charges on the ground. The reason we hear thunder is because the massive amount of energy a fork of lightning generates helps to cause a disturbance in the atmosphere. This disturbance is in the form of a shock wave--that's what we hear as thunder. Hope that answers you question!!

Answer 3

Lightning is something that is a natural occurrence in nature. It can occur from cloud to cloud, cloud to ground or ground to cloud. Lightning usually searches for the shortest path from where it is initiating to where it is striking. Remember lighting is static electricity but in very great amounts. So it is an imbalance of electrons that must neutralize between these two objects.
Lightening is something we do not hear, it is something that we see. Thunder is something that we hear. Thunder and lighting occur at the same instant. We see lighting and we hear the clap of thunder. We will see lighting and depending on how far the lightening occurred, we will later hear the thunder at some time interval. What we hear is actually a violent explosion of air molecules between the object that did the striking and the object that was struck. I hope this answers your question.

Answer 4

The Earth is like a big capacitor, with time, charges are acumulated in the athmosphere increasing the voltage diferential between atmosphere and ground. All dielectrics (a fancy name for an electrical insolator) have a propertie called the dielectric strength, a constant expressend in Volts/meter. The dielectric in this case is the air, with a dielectric strengh of 3MV/m, when this value is reached, rupure will happen causing the ionization of air (the lightening we see) as the electric current makes is way. The sound we wear is the result of the air ionization, the reason we see the lightining first and sound after as to due with the speed of each (~30000000 m/s for ligh and ~400 m/s for sound, a huge diference).
Now that you known this, you may guees wy it's dangerous to climb to a high power transmission line even with a insolator :)

Answer 5

The lighting is the effect and thunder is what you hear, and because light is faster than sound, you first see the lighting then you hear the sound.

PS: check your spelling (why) and I'm sorry that they let people with IQ<60 use YA.

Answer 6

I've never heard lightning.

Answer 7

just to let you know u can't hear lightning

Answer 8

because of gravity

Answer 9

I don't know