Brainstorm: What Are Those Distant Thunder Sounds?
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Hi, I'm Dave Thurlow and today on The Weather Notebook, a new Brainstorm. This one is provided by George Cleveland, a DJ and all around good guy at Weather Notebook flag ship station, WMWV in Conway, New Hampshire. He has seen and heard some wacky things in his life, but this one takes the cake. Pay attention, because you have to tell us what he's talking about. Here's George:

George Cleavland

"When it happens, it is a whomping sound is the best way to call it, as if you were listening to fireworks from a huge distance and it seems to build to a crescendo and then it stops abruptly."

"It's accompanied by flashes of light. They appear to be horizon based. They go into the sky, but it appears to be a horizon based event. It's as if you were looking at fireworks or a thunderstorm from a huge distance. But when there's been cloud cover, it's just reflected all along the clouds and it's reflected on the snow, which really makes it eerie, when you hear that whoomp, whoomp."

"Within 48 hours the first time, there was an earthquake. The second time that I saw it, there was an earthquake that was located 45 or 60 miles away."

"Maybe there's a Weather Notebook listener who knows exactly what it is or they've seen it as well."

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