However, the traditional newspaper (if there really is such an animal) is threatened by shrinking readership. Television is focused on entertainment, even when it dresses it up as news.. Radio is threatened by satellites. All are confronted with the frictionless distribution enabled by the Internet, the disruptive effects of digital information. None have figured out a business model that pays for content at today's rates.
Thunder is a compression wave and will dissipate with time and distance. Under excellent conditions, thunder can be heard about 12 miles away from the lightning strike. However most of the time conditions arenât this good and we usually canât hear thunder any more than about 5 miles away.
However, because light travels much faster than sounds of thunder, it is possible to see lightning from thunderstorms over 100 miles away. Light from a lightning bolt travels outward at over 100,000 miles per second. The flash from a lightning strike occurring within 10 miles will reach you almost instantaneously. Heat lightning is known as such because thunderstorms spawning lightning often occur in the summertime when temperatures are at their warmest.