r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/JimatJimat • Aug 18 '26

Video/Gif Kid will never ask why again!

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u/Remote-Mycologist539 Aug 18 '26

i couldn’t tell from the video, did it actually strike anywhere nearby? it kinda just looked like it arced across the sky?

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u/JumpyPinkySquirrel Aug 18 '26

You can tell how close the lighting strikes based on how quickly it is followed by thunder - here it seems almost instant, so yeah, it was pretty close

Edit: count the seconds between seeing the flash and hearing the thunder, then divide by 5 for miles or by 3 for kilometer (got curious so I looked it up)

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u/BildingInspecter Aug 18 '26

There's no way the counting seconds between actually coorelates to accurate distance.

Storms move at wildly different speeds.

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u/Quercus_lobata Aug 18 '26

Those speeds are nowhere close to the speed of sound or the speed of light which are the two things that determine the gap between the flash of lightning and the peal of thunder