Why Does Lightning Always Come Before Thunder?

During a storm, there is a discrepancy between areas of air between regions of warm and cold. This causes frictional forces to build up, which sometimes creates an electrical spark. This is lightning.

At the same time, sound energy is produced by the friction between the different regions of air. This is heard a few seconds later as a clap of thunder. Thunder always follows along a little later because light travels faster than sound.

The speed of light in air is 299,792,458 metres per second (or 1,079,252,848.8 km h-1). The speed of sound in air is At sea level, at a temperature of 15 C (59  F) and under normal atmospheric conditions  is 340 m s-1 (1225 km h-1or 761 mph).

The electrical discharge created by a bolt of lightning can be very destructive and it can kill. When caught outside in a storm, it is a good idea not to act as a lightning conductor ~ crouch down away from trees at the bottom of a slope if there is no shelter. But there is no need to cover your ears ~ the thunder is completely harmless.

Lighting goes before thunder because the light waves travel faster than sound waves

Actually they happen at the same time but light travels faster than sound so you see lightning before you hear thunder. The farther away you are from the event the longer the separation will be.

The reason that you see lightning before you hear the thunder is that light travels at a greater speed then sound.

Lightning comes before thunder in a way, the speed of light, the lightning comes before the speed of sound, the thunder.  Once lightning occurs, the thunder will ALWAYS follow.  There is a sound barrier that covers the earth.  When the lightning breaks it, we see it faster than we hear the thunder.

The speed of light is around 180 million miles per second vs sound being around 800 miles per hour. Light will reach you faster than sound will.

That is bcoz light travels faster than sound in air. .

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Because light travels MUCH faster than sound.

Because light travels much faster than sound. The two are simultaneous but you see the light before you hear the thunder.

Light travels faster than sound, which means you will see the lightning before the thunder

Light travels faster than sound as light can be gas,solid or liquid but the sound is just a type of gas

Because the light is faster than the sound.
So the lightning hits first than probably after one struck the thunder struck

The lightning comes before thunder because light is as fast as a flash and sound takes afyew seconds.

Because light travels faster than sound, the second lightning passes the sound barrier there is a sonic boom, or thunder, therefore proving that thunder is a factor of lightning. Without lightning there is no thunder.

But that was just an explanation the answer is that because light is most probably one of the most fastest things in the world so it comes first

Because light travels faster than sound

Light travels much faster than as compare to sound.

Because light travels faster than sound.

Actually lightning comes before thunder because light travels faster than sound

The reason for that is the speed of sound travels twice as fast as sound does.

You hear thunder after Lightning because sound travels faster than light and thunder shocks waves created when a lightning bolt super heats air along its path of travels that's what causes thunder

Because the lightning holds so much power that it turns that part of air into nothing. Since there is nothing air rushes into that nothing and creates a sonic boom

Thunder is the warning for lightning telling you to get to a safe location before its too late.

The reson why lighting comes befor is because the sound waves come after the light waves! JayLee

You see lightning first because it's pretty.

Light travels faster than sound.

Lightning is faster than sound.so we it takes less time to reach earth than sound.