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Continued from Page 18 everyone out on the lake during a hot summer afternoon. You can estimate how far a storm is from you by counting the number of seconds from the time you saw the bolt until you hear the thunder. For every 5 seconds you count, that equals a distance of one mile.

Our summer storms don’t last too long. Their average lifespan is about 30-60 minutes. They are dangerous from beginning to end. At the end of the storm’s life, cold air will eventually overcome the warm updrafts of air that started the storm. This cold air is thick an dense and falls from the cloud