What is Thunder? Just a really loud noise? Can you get 'hit' by Thunder like you can Lightning?
2007-12-26 05:44:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
ive heard it is two rain cluods coliding...
2007-12-26 05:46:53 · answer #1 · answered by "E" 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Thunder and lightning are actually the same thing. It's because Sound and light travel at different speeds that you don't see and hear them at the same time. Thunder is the sound lightning makes.
2007-12-26 13:52:28 · answer #2 · answered by Crappy Haircut Girl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thunder is the noise from lightning.
2007-12-26 13:48:37 · answer #3 · answered by moonstonefrogs 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thunder is the sound lightening makes you get by the lightening but if you get hit chances are you will here the noise at the same time b/c of how close it is. Sound travels slower than light.
2007-12-26 13:48:41 · answer #4 · answered by ஐ♥Vanessa♥ஐ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
thunder is the sound of the expansion of the air around the bolt of lightning. the rapid heating of that air causes the sound you hear of thunder!
2007-12-26 13:49:21 · answer #5 · answered by mit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just when 2 clouds crash it make that noise. and no u cannot get "hit" by thunder.
2007-12-26 13:49:33 · answer #6 · answered by Bubbles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To put it simply, lightning is electricity. It forms in the strong up-and-down air currents inside tall dark cumulonimbus clouds as water droplets, hail, and ice crystals collide with one another. Scientists believe that these collisions build up charges of electricity in a cloud. The positive and negative electrical charges in the cloud separate from one another, the negative charges dropping to the lower part of the cloud and the positive charges staying ins the middle and upper parts. Positive electrical charges also build upon the ground below. When the difference in the charges becomes large enough, a flow of electricity moves from the cloud down to the ground or from one part of the cloud to another, or from one cloud to another cloud. In typical lightning these are down-flowing negative charges, and when the positive charges on the ground leap upward to meet them, the jagged downward path of the negative charges suddenly lights up with a brilliant flash of light. Because of this, our eyes fool us into thinking that the lightning bolt shoots down from the cloud, when in fact the lightning travels up from the ground. In some cases, positive charges come to the ground from severe thunderstorms or from the anvil at the very top of a thunderstorm cloud. The whole process takes less than a millionth of a second.
2007-12-26 13:48:51 · answer #7 · answered by 'Old & Cudley' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thunder IS light...just after the sound that is thunder and no, you can't get hit
2007-12-26 14:07:25 · answer #8 · answered by **In Love** 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the sound of hot and cold air colliding.
No you can't get hit by thunder silly! ;)
2007-12-26 13:48:32 · answer #9 · answered by єvєrmorє *Hαs Gonє Rєtro* 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thunder is the sound lightning makes before it strikes
2007-12-26 13:47:34 · answer #10 · answered by Queen 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Thunder is the collision of air, (hot and cold) it is always there before lightining, you can't get hit by it though, Lightining can get you though!
2007-12-28 19:22:40 · answer #11 · answered by Villain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋