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.
If you hear thunder 12 seconds after you see a flash of lightning how far away is the thunderstorm? As sounds travels at about 343 meters per second (1,215 feet per second), The 12 second difference translates to 4.1 Kilometers (about 2.5 miles).