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To: MosesKnows
Should that be 5 miles per second?

No. I believe it is 5 seconds per mile. IOW, when lightning hits, it takes 5 seconds to travel a mile. If I saw that flash and then counted 5 seconds, it would mean it was a mile away but since I counted just under a second as you can hear in the video, that lightning strike was less than a quarter mile away.

8 posted on 08/12/2019 2:38:29 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Five seconds per mile is correct.


9 posted on 08/12/2019 2:40:25 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: PJ-Comix

Lighting doesn’t always go down, it can go any direction and often goes horizontal, so the origin of that strike could have begun over your head at 1000 feet in the cloud base (a second away) while striking the Earth at some greater distance. Just one of many possibilities. But its usually best not to hang out in thunder storms :)


12 posted on 08/12/2019 2:44:49 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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