how do you
work out how far away a storm is, using the lightning/ thunder principle?
( The Coast Of Yemen, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:55, archived)

Go out side and hold out a long metal rod
When you are struck you know its close
( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:56, archived)

Roughly a second a mile
but it is very approximate.
( dr_fonz, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:56, archived)

2 and half miles
eep!
( The Coast Of Yemen, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:01, archived)

I thought it was a kilometer a second.

( baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:01, archived)

sound travels
AT 300m/s in air
( DrPoppers Touched by his noodly appendage, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:03, archived)

Depends on the viscosity
of the rain in the air tho dunnit ?
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:05, archived)

Yes, it does*
*No, it doesn't. At all.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:11, archived)

roughly a mile every five seconds
is less approximate
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:01, archived)

Then that means...
half a mile
*cowers*
( The Coast Of Yemen, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:03, archived)

one of the safest places to be
is in a car. Off you go.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:04, archived)

approximate to the point of complete inaccuracy
sound travels about a mile every five seconds

edit: which makes flapjack a mach 3 fighter jet, and me a badly-made paper dart
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:03, archived)

Mindpiss
for physics spods.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:05, archived)

I think it's something to do with the storm being very high up
So the sound has to go down the long side of a triangle. Or something. I saw a picture in a book, once.
( dr_fonz, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:05, archived)

I stand,
very much corrected.

So much for my engineering degree!
( dr_fonz, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:09, archived)

Speed of sound is about 5 seconds to the mile.
Number of seconds from flash to bang / 5 = number of miles to epicentre*.
* or whatever lightning has
( Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:05, archived)

sharp teeth
I think. bitey.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:09, archived)

I think the meteorologists' term is
a 'bastard'. As in "Look! There's the bastard!"
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:12, archived)

Hahaha :D

( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:23, archived)