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IT must have occurred to others besides myself how very absurd it is to designate a meteorological phenomenon by the least important of its characteristics, viz. the noise it makes. We never speak of a hail-storm as a “rattle”-storm, or a shower of rain as a “patter”-storm; why then should we call an electrical disturbance a “thunder”-storm? Thunder, though no doubt terrifying to savages and children and old ladies (one or two of whom have, I believe, been killed by the fright of it), and though of some interest as an acoustic phenomenon, is absolutely the most trivial of the accompaniments of art electrical discharge.
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METEOR The So-called “Thunder”–storm—Prevalence of Anticyclones. Nature 60, 366 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060366a0
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