{"id":46200,"date":"2023-08-29T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46200"},"modified":"2023-08-29T18:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:46:15","slug":"weather-how-far-away-was-the-lightning-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/weather-how-far-away-was-the-lightning-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather: how far away was the lightning strike?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about weather events: the tutor mentions a way to estimate how distant a lightning strike was.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLast evening, there was intermittent lightning and thunder. At one point I thought it was over, but then a flash reached the corner of my eye. I wasn&#8217;t looking outside, but was in a dark room, so noticed it through the blind.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Was that lightning?&#8221; I asked myself. I started counting while I awaited thunder, in case it was. Around 20 seconds later, thunder finally arrived: indeed, it had been lightning.<\/p>\n<p>\nSound travels around 340m\/s, so 20*340 = 6800m or 6.8km away.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about weather events: the tutor mentions a way to estimate how distant a lightning strike was. Last evening, there was intermittent lightning and thunder. At one point I thought it was over, but then a flash reached the corner &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/weather-how-far-away-was-the-lightning-strike\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weather: how far away was the lightning strike?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46202,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46200\/revisions\/46202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}