How is the SOUND of THUNDER created.??

Question

How is the SOUND of THUNDER created.??

Answer 1

sound created by lightening.

Answer 2

The SOUND of THUNDER is created when a warm air mass collides with a cold air mass. BOOM!

Answer 3

The sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightning produces rapid expansion of the air surrounding and within a bolt of lightning. In turn, this expansion of air creates a sonic shock wave which produces the sound of thunder.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

As we have said there are two kinds of exhalation, moist and dry; and their combination (air) contains both potentially. It condenses into clouds as we have explained before, and the condensation of clouds is thicker towards their farther limit...But any of the dry exhalation that gets trapped when the air is in the process of cooling is forcibly ejected as the clouds condense and in its course strikes the surrounding clouds, and the noise caused by the impact is what we call thunder.

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) Meteorologica.

In the first place the blue of heaven is shaken with thunder, because the ethereal clouds clash together as they fly aloft when the winds combat from opposite quarters.

T. Lucretius (98-55 B.C.). On the Nature of Things, Book VI.

...waterie vapour by the coldnesse both of place and of matter, is thickened into a clowd, and the exhalation (which was drawne up with it) is shut within the clowd, seeking some passage out. This hotte exhalation flying the touching of the cold clowd, doth flie into the depth of the clowd...it maketh a way by force, and beeing kindled, by the violent motion it breaketh through the clowde...then there is made both thunder and lightning...

Simon Harward, 1607. A Discourse of the Severall Kinds and Causes of Lightnings.

...the sound which is known as thunder is due simply to the fact that the air traversed by an electric spark, that is, a flash of lightning, is suddenly raised to a very high temperature, and has its volume, moreover considerably increased. The column of gas thus suddenly heated and expanded is sometimes several miles long and as the duration of the flash is not even a millionth of a second, it follows that the noise bursts forth at once from the whole column, though for an observer in any one place it commences where lightning is at least distance.

Answer 6

As lightning connects to the ground from the clouds, a second stroke of lightning will return from the ground to the clouds, following the same channel as the first strike. The heat from the electricity of this return stroke raises the temperature of the surrounding air to around 27,000 C° (48,632 F°). Since the lightning takes so little time to go from point A to point B, the heated air has no time to expand. The heated air is compressed, raising the air from 10 to 100 times the normal atmospheric pressure. The compressed air explodes outward from the channel, forming a shock wave of compressed particles in every direction. Like an explosion, the rapidly expanding waves of compressed air create a loud, booming burst of noise.