Friday night there were some heavy storms across the south central US. I was woken up by “thunder” at about 4:30 in the morning. Here is the weird part. So what I heard several times sounded like a continual rolling thunder clap. Hard to explain in writing, but it was one event that was a continual bah-boom! bah-boom! bah-boom! that was traveling from south to north. It sounded like some super low altitude ship in a sci-fi movie emoting loud speaker noises. Is that a normal weather event? Anyone know what that is? When I think of thunder I think of one clap and it is done until the next clap. And I haven’t heard anything like this that I remember on all my years.
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Rolling thunder. Normal when many storms are active. You can use the Windy app to monitor the lightening strikes. I think you would be surprised to see the amount of strikes associated with a line of thunderstorms. Also, since sounds travels way slower than light, if the storms are far away you will see the lightning but not hear the thunder until many seconds later.