May 8, 2025

Hilton Head

Fiddler’s Cove

Unit 21H

Did not get to First Tee Lowcountry or Hudson’s and did not text Blackie.

Did walk the beach, go to the pool, cook some shrimp. Lifted weights.

This afternoon there have been rumbles of thunder for about an hour. I didn’t see any lightning but there must have been some as explained in this article:

Thunder is caused by lightning, which is essentially a stream of electrons flowing between or within clouds, or between a cloud and the ground. The air surrounding the electron stream is heated to as hot as 50,000 degrees Farhenheit, which is three times hotter than the surface of the sun. As the superheated air cools it produces a resonating tube of partial vacuum surrounding the lightning's path. The nearby air rapidly expands and contracts. This causes the column to vibrate like a tubular drum head and produces a tremendous crack. As the vibrations gradually die out, the sound echoes and reverberates, generating the rumbling we call thunder. We can hear the thundering booms 10 miles or more distant from the lightning that caused it.