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.
However, because light travels much faster than sounds of thunder, it is possible to see lightning from thunderstorms over 100 miles away. Light from a lightning bolt travels outward at over 100,000 miles per second. The flash from a lightning strike occurring within 10 miles will reach you almost instantaneously. Heat lightning is known as such because thunderstorms spawning lightning often occur in the summertime when temperatures are at their warmest.