Learning the thunder.

Brain development: Lightning is always seen, thunder always heard

Over a century ago, the psychologist William James proposed a thought experiment, and suggested the answer: if the eyes were forced to connect to the auditory centres of the brain, and the ears with the visual centres, we would “hear the lightning and see the thunder” [1]. James’ point was that the perceptual qualities of our sensations — what philosophers term qualia — have their origin in the...

Spatial Analysis of thunder storm in Iran

Thunderstorms are major climatic events due to the significant effects and catastrophic consequences on humans and the natural environment. The researches have shown that the elevation and latitude factors are two variables that can affect the occurrence of this phenomenon. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to investigate the spatial analysis of the effects of lightning and its effects o...

Method of Evaluating Substation Records of Hail and Thunder

Cooperative substation records of hail and thunder incidences have been used as a source of data to devclop more accurate and detailed average patterns of these phenomena. Since the accuracy and completeness of records by volunteer observers are generally considered questionable, a method of determining accurate substation records of thunder and hail was devised. The evaluation method relies st...

Gifts from the Thunder Beings

Infrasound from lightning measured in Ivory Coast

Previous measurement campaign, realized in France in 2005, has shown that an infrasound station can clearly measure thunder when lightning occur within 75 km from the station. In this paper, infrasound data recorded in Ivory Coast since 2005 are analyzed and compared to WWLLN data in order to quantify statistically the main trends observed in 2005. The main results are : (1) the (infrasonic) th...