distance to storm? count from the lightening?
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Count the seconds from flash to thunder and divide by 5, 1 second 1/5 = of a mile
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10 years ago we received freezing rain - 15 inches in a matter of hours.\n\nNumerous television and radio towers toppled over due to weight of the ice which formed on the support cables - the cables are approx. 3/4" and with the ice, they measured 6-8" in diameter!\n\nPower outages were statewide - and some people were without power for up to two weeks following the storm.\n\nDriving was treacherous. \n\nSeveral roofs collapsed and many that didn't leaked badly enough to cause extensive damage inside the buildings. The ice build up simply pushed up and under the shingles.\n\nHowever, as mentioned in another one of your answers, in the end, when the rain stopped, it was absolutely beautiful. Everything sparkled and glowed in the sunlight.\n\nNeedless to say, the means didn't justify the end.
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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/2003-05-06-lightning-airplanes_x.htm
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an Electrical storm involves lightning.\nAnd lightning can travel at the speed of light.\nBecause it mostly is light.\n\nThunder is slower and goes at the speed of sound so we hear the thunder later.
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Suggest you log on to "HAIL STORM CENTER" as there would be plenty of imfo there for you, Good luck!
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From a distance, lightning will come before the thunder.  But at the point of the bolt, they occur at the same time.\n\nFrom the source below:\n"Actually, they do occur at the same time. The time difference that you sense is due to the way sound and light travel. Light travels extremely fast (300,000,000 m/s). In fact, it is faster than anything else. Sound travels at a measly 343 m/s through air. Therefore we can see light in an instant, but it takes a while to hear thunder."
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Although sightings of these colorful events have been documented in the past, this phenomena has come to the front of geophysical interest in recent times. Red sprites typically extend above the cloud tops up to heights of nearly 95 km. After several imaging campaigns in the central United States during1993 and 1994, there has been an increased demand to explain these naturally-occurring colorful flashes. The VLF group is actively pursuing scientific explanations along with our colleagues in the field. \n\nmore info in\nhttp://www-star.stanford.edu/~vlf/Red_Sprite/
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Actually a storm came through Fort Worth in about 1995, the sky was about as green as a lilly pad.  We didn't get the severe weather where I lived, but FW got grapefruit sized hail in the park that actually killed several people.  Now that I study and work in weather I know what causes the green discoloration when the light refracts off hailstone in the air it causes a light green light, with more widespread and intense hail you get the darker green
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T means thunder. They are just a big rain with lighting.
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Yep, you're right -- the west coast of Africa. Florida is the lightning capital of the U.S.\n\nhttp://experts.about.com/q/Meteorology-Weather-668/lightening.htm
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Well an easy one is the thermometer of corse for the temperature \n\nAnother will be your barometer this instament measures pressure of the atmosphere (lower pressure a good signal for bad weather) \n\nThe anamometer we use to measure wind speed and direction \n\nNow one of the ccolest instaments we have is a laser cieliometer...aka(LBC) this device measures cloud heights by firing an invisible laser into the air, however it is only good up to 12,000ft AGL (above ground level)\n\nTransmisometer-runway visual range\nWSR-88D(Radar)- storm location, movement, intesity, direction...ect\n\nThere are several instaments we use....one of the best resources other than this might be to go to the local news station.
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ride the lightening!\nGod Bless
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High: 41\nLow:  29\n\nWith very light snowfall (0.01) inch
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Umbrella\ninside/outside\nelectricity\nNewton  (new ton)\n550 + /+= 554
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for a blizzard, there has to be a certain amount of speed for a certain amount of time, maybe 25-35mph for a period of hours and a certain amount of snow is expected i think. we have a blizzard watch here right now in southern NE\n\njust saw this on my local news\nblizzard classified\nmore that 35 mph winds 3 hours or more\nand visibility less that 1/4 mile 3 hours or more\ndoesnt depend on snow
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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
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There is a way to coax lightening to strike a given location, but the problem with controlling it is that the storm which is producing it is moving.  One good strike does pack a wallop, but to convert water into a usefull amount of steam would take many strikes hitting a target over a period of time.  Hence the problem with the moving storm.