Re: Close lightning strike and strange tick (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:26:03 -0300
From: Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Close lightning strike and strange tick (fwd)

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> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:26:54 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Close lightning strike and strange tick (fwd)
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> I'd say that's a good description of the click sound that we heard.  It
> was definitely not the crackly sound of a spark.  It also wasn't the sound
> of a pop like a discharging capacitor either.  
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I have too heard this characteristic "click" sound (or "pseudosound") 
several times when lightning strikes
occur nearby, what is quite common where I live. I just wonder if the 
sound is real or just an impression
caused, trough some neurological illusion, by the intense sound of the 
thunder a fraction of second later.
There is, however, good reasons to believe that it's the electromagnetic 
pulse that causes the "click".

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz