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.
Lightning Distance Calculator. Here you can calculate the Distance from Lightning from of the speed of the sound. The seconds will be counted from the flash of the lightning till the sound of the thunder. The sounds travel about 1100 to 1200 feet/sec. Here the default will be 1150.