Thunder

You are right Lightening and thunder form at the same time. However if you are a distance away, lightening is seen first and thunder is heard later. The reason is simple. The flash of lightening travels at 186000 miles a second. Thunder travels at the speed of sound which is roughly 1000 feet a second.

but There is a difference dear. Lightening you have to see, while you dont have to listen to thunder. Means your sight will have to travel to see where lightening is, while thunder sound will travel itself to reach your ears. And sometimes due to ozone thickness your sight can't see a thing which is there....

From what I was learnt (lmao!!) in school...lightning comes first and then the thunder comes rolling in. And because a bolt of lightning travels so fast, the clap of thunder that you hear is from the zap of the bolt. And also I was taught that if you count (one one thousand, 2 one thousand, 3 one thousand...), for every one thousand that you count until you hear the thunder, that is how many miles away the lightning that struck was.

yes i know this light travels faster than sound.

Yeah you're right. You see the flash first, and then hear it. That part is true. Then there's the urban myth that if you count the seconds between the light and the sound you can tell how far away the strike was. I always believed that part to be true, and that it was a mile per second. Well imagine my suprise when I was talking to a Canadian and a Swede at the same time and they had completely different formulas for figuring out the distance! Not just a difference between miles and meters, either.

you are right because light travels much faster than the speed of light

Thunder is the sound of the shockwave caused when lightning instantly heats the air around it to up to 30 000 °C (54 000 °F). That super-heated air expands rapidly, then contracts as it cools.

i think it is true

of course the lightning comes first light always travels faster than sound does thats simple physics

yes you are right

Yes your right.Both occur at the same time but since the speed of sound is less than that of the light u hear thunder after lightning is seen.Usually people dont see the sky during lightning and hence believe that thunder is followed by lightning.

i remember learning this in science, that is why you count from the time you see the flash til the time your hear the boom to see how far away the storm is from you. i'm sure this is silly, but i remember learning it as a child.

We used to count how many seconds between lightning and thunder, so i guess i agree, thunder does come first.

You are true... Light speed is much more faster than sound speed!

When I would hear a loud clap of thunder, I would duck in order not to be hit by the lightning. My dad told me that if I heard the thunder, I was lucky...that I hadn't been hit by the lightning. I've never forgotten that. And light does travel faster than sound, as I learned some years later. I'm already convinced you're right.

The flash of a lightning strike and resulting thunder occur at roughly the same time. But light travels at 186,000 miles in a second, almost a million times the speed of sound. Sound travels at the slower speed of one-fifth of a mile in the same time. So the flash of lightning is seen before thunder is heard. By counting the seconds between the flash and the thunder and dividing by 5, you can estimate your distance from the strike (in miles).

Well its a fact and all they have to do is stand and watch. when you count after you see the thunder the number of seconds you count X100metres before you hear the thunder is the distance to the place the thunder thundered.

You are right. I had experience it myself. I always see the flashes of the lightning firstly and hear the roar of the thunder later. Mayb people are confused when there is a sequence of thunders where they mistaken the lightning of the first thunder as the second one. They are also less scientific literate. Base on science fact, light is travelling at the speed of 3x10^8 m/s and sound is like 343m/s. The speed of light is unbeatable when compared to the speed of sound. So, it is valid that "we actually see the lightning before we hear it as thunder"

I should think so too because light is many,many,many multiples faster than the speed of sound.

yeah datz a good intrepetion unlike traditional belief's