http://www.howitworksdaily.com/environment/can-you-calculate-how-far-away-lightning-struck/ How It Works will feed your mind with informative and entertaining answers about the world around us. Packed with articles, videos, interactive illustrations and Q&As - it's enlightening fun for the whole family...' Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:35:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.howitworksdaily.com/environment/can-you-calculate-how-far-away-lightning-struck/comment-page-1/#comment-20830 Randy Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:15:31 +0000 http://www.howitworksdaily.com/?p=850#comment-20830 I use the method my dad taught me and the numbers are smaller. Count the number of seconds between flash and the start of thunder divide the number of seconds by 5. the result is th approximate distance in miles. Maybe Im just a math dummy I use the method my dad taught me and the numbers are smaller. Count the number of seconds between flash and the start of thunder divide the number of seconds by 5. the result is th approximate distance in miles. Maybe Im just a math dummy

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