Thunderstorms and Floods by Bridget We https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz en-us 2019-05-20 13:07:02 UTC 2025-10-23 04:46:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F26c8.png bw20245 https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361712813 The first necessary condition is moisture in the lower and mid levels of the atmosphere. As air rises in a thunderstorm updraft, moisture condenses into small water drop which form clouds (and eventually precipitation).]]> 2019-05-20 13:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361712813 The higher in the atmosphere means it has to fall farther and harder. bw20245 https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361716984 On 539 it says that the higher in atmosphere the bigger the rain drops form.]]> 2019-05-20 13:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361716984 Thunderstorms are short spurts of heavy rain and sometimes they are unpredictable depending on where they are in the atmosphere. bw20245 https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361717929 2019-05-20 13:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361717929 bw20245 https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361719091 When a lightning bolt travels from the cloud to the ground it actually opens up a little hole in the air, called a channel. Once then light is gone the air collapses back in and creates a sound wave that we hear as thunder. The reason we see lightning before we hear thunder is because light travels faster than sound]]> 2019-05-20 13:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361719091 bw20245 https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361720340 Every year, the Earth experiences an average of 25 million lightning strikes during some 100,000 thunderstorms. That's more than a hundred lightning bolts per second.over the last 20 years, the United States averaged 51 annual lightning strike fatalities]]> 2019-05-20 13:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361720340 sound can travel 332 meters per second. bw20245 https://padlet.com/lisle202/5u8eksyautzz/wish/361721346
  • For every 5 seconds the storm is one mile away. Divide the number of seconds you count by 5 to get the number of miles.


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