Snowmass Village, Colorado. Snowmass Village is a Home Rule Municipality in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The population was 2,826 at the 2010 census. A popular winter resort location for skiing and snowboarding, the town is well known as the location of the Snowmass ski area, the largest of the four nearby ski areas operated collectively as Aspen/Snowmass. In 2010 the accidental discovery by a bulldozer operator of fossilized elements of a Pleistocene ecosystem in the ice age lake bed at the Ziegler Reservoir pu
â¢ If you can hear thunder, you are within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of a stormâand can be struck by lightning. Seek shelter and avoid situations in which you may be vulnerable. â¢ Use the 30-30 rule, when visibility is good and there is nothing obstructing your view of the thunderstorm.
First off, itâs impossible to have lightning without thunder and itâs impossible to have thunder without lightning. Heat lightning is nothing more than seeing lightning and not hearing the thunder, because the storm is too far away. Lightning is pretty darn bright and can be seen for tens of miles. Thunder is a compression wave and will dissipate with time and distance. Under excellent conditions, thunder can be heard about 12 miles away from the lightning strike. However most of the time conditions arenât this good and we usually canât hear thunder any more than about 5 miles away.