How thunder is formed?

Thunder Lightning creates plasma (ionized gas medium) [30,000 °C]. The channel pressure greatly exceeds the ambient (surrounding) pressure, and the channel expands at a supersonic rate (speed of sound). The resultant shock wave decays rapidly with distance and is eventually heard as thunder once it slows to the speed of sound. How should be Thunder …

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Are thunder dangerous?

While thunder itself is not usually dangerous, except in extremely rare circumstances, thunderstorms are, because they are associated with meteorological phenomena like lightning, which can be highly dangerous. You should be thinking “How dangerous are thunderstorms?” All thunderstorms produce lightning and are dangerous. If you hear the sound of thunder, then you are in danger …

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Does thunder hurt you?

The electricity that does enters a person’s body can cause devastating neurological damage, including memory loss, chronic pain and seizures in addition to the relatively superficial burns on the outside of someone’s skin. Another inquiry we ran across in our research was “Can thunder and lightning hurt you?”. One way to think about this is …

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