ment of a direction that all further proceedings shall be stayed, (t. e., that the process may stand,) and it is one of the ways by which a suit may be terminated by an act of the party, as distinguished from a termination of it by judgment, which is the act of the court.
The resulting number will tell you how many miles away you are from where lightning just struck. Five seconds, for example, indicates the lightning struck 1 mile away, and a 10-second gap means the lightning was 2 miles away.
There is an old myth that counting seconds between a lightning flash and the accompanying thunder gives you the distance of how far away the storm is, in miles. However, from a mathematical point of view we know this isnât true, as the speed of sound is roughly 330 metres per second.