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Does a tower bell ringing prevent thunderstorms?
Introduction
This is the beginning of an apparently physics-unrelated question which involves 1700-1800 Italian law, atmospheric processes, sound waves propagating through fluids, and lightning ...
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Why does moderately distant lightning sound the way it does: relatively quiet high pitched thunder first, and then much louder low pitched thunder?
Why does thunder, that is heard about five or ten seconds after the lightning is seen, start as relatively quiet high pitched 'crackling' thunder which is, about five or ten seconds later than that, ...
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Why do airplanes make a humming sound when airborne while the engines (when on the ground) make a steady sound?
I know experience-based questions are a bit tricky on this site but isn't every theory based on common experience?
Every time I hear an air jetliner flying over at a high altitude it seems the engines ...
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Does an overcast sky alter the sound waves coming from above it (like the sound of an airplane)?
This morning, in our little backyard, I heard an airplane that was flying above the clouds, which were completely and uniformly covering the blue sky, as if they formed one big homogeneous grey mass. ...
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Is there any noise in or around cumulus / cumulonimbus clouds?
From the ground you obviously cannot hear any sound from a developing cumulus cloud, no matter how vigorous it is. BUT: Are there sound waves generated, e.g. at the cloud edges where there is a lot of ...
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If I'm traveling at the same direction and speed of the wind, will I still hear and feel it?
Because riding a motorcycle, I didn't feel a difference when riding in different directions.
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Without seeing the lightning, can you tell how far away it struck by how the thunder sounds?
Is there any way to tell how far away a lightning strike is by how its thunder sounds? I thought one way might be by using the fact that higher frequencies travel faster than lower frequencies. Would ...
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