eli5: How is sound produced in the clouds during thunderstorms?

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eli5: How is sound produced in the clouds during thunderstorms?

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Lightning creates a huge, fast vacuum as soon as the lightning dissipates, when the air around it fills in that space, it creates the thunderclap, which you hear.

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