What is the Thunder?

The Thunder is the loud sound we hear when lightning happens far away.

Imagine you're playing with your favorite toy car on the floor. When you push it hard and it zooms across the room, you might hear a clack or crash as it hits something, that’s like the Thunder. Lightning is like a super-fast flash of light in the sky, and when it happens far away, the sound takes time to reach us, just like how the crash from your toy car takes a little time to reach your ears after you push it.

When lightning strikes, it makes a big boom, but sometimes that boom is too far for us to hear clearly. The sound travels through the air, and depending on how far away the lightning was, we might hear it as a thunderclap, or even as a rumbling noise that seems to roll across the sky.

It’s kind of like shouting from one end of a big room, you can hear the person, but their voice sounds a bit muffled and delayed compared to if they were right next to you. That's how Thunder works!