If electricity is faster than the speed of sound why does it not make a sonic boom?

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If electricity is faster than the speed of sound why does it not make a sonic boom?

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Thunder. It’s what happens when electricity moves through air rather than a wire.

Though, in this case the electricity is heating the air so rapidly that it crashes into other air molecules as the gas expands violently.

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