Here's today's Trivia Tuesday question:
Lightning can strike ___ miles outside of a thunderstorm
A. 5 MILES
B. 37 MILES
C. 25 MILES
D. 200 MILES
ANSWER: C. 25 MILES
Lightning can strike 25 miles or more outside of a thunderstorm, sometimes reaching areas where the sky overhead is still blue! You can estimate how far away lightning is by counting the seconds between the flash and the sound of thunder. Every 5 seconds equals roughly 1 mile — so if thunder arrives 15 seconds after the flash, the lightning was about 3 miles away.
