Storms: Summer reliably brings three things in much of the United States: heat, humidity and thunderstorms. The storms' raw materials are moisture, lift and atmospheric instability. Their lightning bolts superheat the air, and the air's rapid expansion and contraction form the sound waves we hear as thunder.
When lightning strikes
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