Marney: Blog Of The Day

Thunder

By Marney

     The sound of thunder is made when there is lighting.  Air around the lighting strike gets hot and cold.  Then it suddenly makes noise.  You can hear thunder when it is close because the sound travel is one mile every five seconds.  If you see lighting but hear no thunder that means the storm is ten miles away.

     Norse legends said that when Thor is angry there would be thunder and lighting.  Native Americans tribes said when Grandfather Thunder and Grandmother Moon get angry things break, like trees and houses, but there is also thunder and lighting.  Today people still tell their kids that two clouds crash together and make thunder and lighting.

     You can not have thunder without lighting because lighting makes thunder.  In Florida there is the most thunder because there is a bunch of lighting.  When people have a fear of thunder that is called brontophobia.  There are 44,000 thunder storms on the earth every day.