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How far away was that lightning?

  • Written by Becky Bolinger, Assistant State Climatologist and Research Scientist in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
One one thousand, two one thousand....Eric Ward/Unsplash, CC BY

You probably do it. It might be ingrained from when you were a kid, and now it’s almost automatic. You see the flash of lightning – and you immediately start counting the seconds till it thunders.

But does counting really get you a good estimate for how far away the...

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