Wintertime thunder is louder because of how sound travels, which depends on temperature and air density. 3News Meteorologist ...

Why Does Thunder Sound Louder in the Cold?During the colder months, it's not often we gets storms that produce lightning and thunder. However, when we do, have you ever noticed thunder sounding or ...

With lightning, there’s always thunder. Thunder is the sound produced by the rapid expansion and contraction of the air heated by lightning. When the air around the lightning bolt heats up so ...

We usually see lightning before we hear thunder. That’s because light and sound travel at different speeds. The lightning flash travels very fast, but the sound of thunder travels much more slowly.

Wintertime thunder is louder because of how sound travels through the atmosphere during colder months. Thunder is the sound produced by the rapid expansion of air following a lightning strike.