To judge how close lightning is, count the seconds between the flash and the thunderclap. Each second represents about 984.25 feet.
• Lightning does not always create thunder. In April 1885, five lightning bolts struck the Washington Monument during a thunderstorm, yet no thunder was heard.
• Lightning is one of nature's most recurrent and common spectacles. Around the world, there are over 3,000,000 flashes every day, or 1,400,000,000 strikes every year.
• While the intensity of a lightning strike can make them appear as thick bolts across the sky, the actual width of a lightning bolt is only about width of a thumb. The average length of a lightning bolt is about 2-3 miles.
• The charge carried down this small channel is so intense that the temperature of the lightning reaches 30,000 °C - five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
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