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I WAS interested in reading the recent correspondence in NATURE about the sound of lightning, for I also have once heard it. It was in East Griqualand one evening when, in the midst of a storm, I saw a blinding flash, followed almost instantaneously by an explosion like a shell. But between the flash and the crash there was a distinct small pistol-shot-like sound, immediately after the flash.
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BLATHWAYT, T. Thunderstorms and the Sound of Lightning. Nature 116, 499 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116499d0
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