Why do we see lightning before we hear thunder

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Light is rapid.it travels at about 300000 images-12.jpgkilometer per second while sound travels a million times slower, at 340 meters per second. If a thunderstorm is far away , light arrives first. But it brusts above our heads ,we see lightning and hear thunder at the time.download-2.jpg

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