How does thunder?

Particle movement in clouds causes a massive creation of charge. So, the clouds are charged. When these charged clouds come close to other charged objects, like other clouds, the ground, trees, etc....

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Thunder, as a pressurized sound wave, can hurt your ears, scare children and animals, and set off some car alarms. Since it is caused by the rapid heating of air produced by a nearby lightning...

It transmits the sound of lightning in every direction. Thus, one can measure the distance to the lightning source by noting the time difference between seeing and hearing lightning.

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