Field recording of a thunderstorm over Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK, <br />starting at approximately 1545 BST on Thursday, 14 September, 2006. At <br />least two instances of thunder have a distinct click sound just before them; <br />each click is the lightning flash (inducing electro-magnetic noise into the <br />recording equipment). Only powerful and/or nearby lightning does that; <br />using a well-known formula you can time the period between a click and the <br />thunderclap immediately following it to see how far away the strike was. <br />The closest and most powerful strike in this recording I estimated to hit a <br />neighbouring housing estate with just a narrow green belt of land between me <br />and it. Looking in the next day's local paper, a house that close was, <br />indeed, hit. See if you can work out how far away the strike was. Here's a <br />link to the story in the local paper: <br />http://evening.gazette.vlex.co.uk/vid/lightning-hit-twice-71835851 <br />('Lightning Hit Twice'; this isn't a good link -- it's a third-party news <br />archive site -- I'm looking for a better one. There is just enough preview <br />of the story to show another area hit by one of the major strikes: Thornaby <br />(woke my friend up there!).) (BTW, LOL, thought there might be some thunder <br />today, and... it's just come over *black* here just now and is thundering!)
