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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on January 04, 2008, 08:46:07 PM
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I was looking out the window yesterday, watching the snow falling. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning and, a few seconds later, a rumble of thunder. Now, I'm not a meot...metoro...a person who knows much about weather but is this common? Snow, thunder and lightning?
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It's difficult to have lightning without thunder.
Maybe the thunder is God shivering in the snow.
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It's difficult to have lightning without thunder.
Maybe the thunder is God shivering in the snow.
Tranquil has religious leanings. He should know.
I expect the damp snow, being fluffy, stuck to the lightning forks and gradually extinguished them. That would also have minimised the thunder.
I must state I'm not a trained meteorologist.
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Yes!!! Yes!!! I too have witnessed lightning when it was snowing... and NO thunder... I knew I hadn't dreamt it!!!
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Yes!!! Yes!!! I too have witnessed lightning when it was snowing... and NO thunder... I knew I hadn't dreamt it!!!
Maybe you were just asleep
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Perhaps he had the volume turned down.
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Tranquil has religious leanings. He should know.
I tend to lean away from religion, towards faith, Peepsie.
As for the question, God knows.
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As for the question, God knows.
Yes, but Mince doesn't seem to be on here tonight.
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He'll be off taking his name in vain somewhere.
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Sorry for the absence: I've been moving in mysterious ways.
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I used to tell my kids that thunder was god shifting his furniture.
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Funny weather: when it's raining plastic dog poop and rubber chickens.
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It's difficult to have lightning without thunder.
Not in Sydney - we frequently get what we call electrical storms, with just the lightning, but maybe the thunder's very quiet. We don't have the snow, though. Sounds pretty funny to me, Roger, but then it's usually pretty warm and humid (like now) when we get our storms.
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It's difficult to have lightning without thunder.
Not in Sydney - we frequently get what we call electrical storms, with just the lightning, but maybe the thunder's very quiet. We don't have the snow, though. Sounds pretty funny to me, Roger, but then it's usually pretty warm and humid (like now) when we get our storms.
I noticed that in The Philippines last year. You would regularly see lightning flashing in the far distance, and in various parts of the sky, but hear no thunder.
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That's because the storm is too far off. You'll only hear thunder if the storm is in the vicinity.
When I was a kid we used to count elephants after we saw lightning -"one elephant, two elephants, three elephants..." and however many elephants you counted before you heard thunder, that's how many miles distant the storm was.
Your Philippine storms were too many elephants away.
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I'll explain it to in private, Roger.
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GARY T
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That's because the storm is too far off. You'll only hear thunder if the storm is in the vicinity.
When I was a kid we used to count elephants after we saw lightning -"one elephant, two elephants, three elephants..." and however many elephants you counted before you heard thunder, that's how many miles distant the storm was.
Your Philippine storms were too many elephants away.
The locals call it "heat lightning", so I just assumed that the thunder wasn't there, but you're right - googled it and apparently if the thunder's over 10 elephants away, you can't hear it. Learn something new every day.
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Since elephants don't know the word "elephant", how do they determine how far away lightning is?
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They count in hippopotomi, obviously. ::)
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Yes, it's so obvious. I feel stupid now.
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Obviously.
In hippo society it's a hippopotamust. ;D
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Indeed, and rhi nos...?
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I was shocked to find I had them,