Kids Carnival Rides Central Park New York City Skyline

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Kids Carnival Rides Central Park New York City Skyline. Carnival Rides Central Park at the Wollman Rink! The Victorian Gardens offer a wide assortment of rides, games, and food.

Attractions include the Family Swinger, Samba Balloon, Aeromax, Convoy, Rockin’ Tug, Kite Flyer, Fun Slide, HydroRacer, and Mini Mouse Coaster. Children under 36 inches tall are admitted free with paid adult ticket.

New York City skyline of Central Park South in the background

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The temperature of the atmosphere affects the thunder sound you hear as well as how far away you can hear it. Sound waves move faster in warm air than they do in cool air. Typically, the air temperature decreases with height. When this occurs, thunder will normally have an audible range up to 10 miles (16 km).

However, when the air temperature increases with height, called an inversion, sound waves are refracted (bent back toward the earth) as they move due to their faster motion in the warmer air. Normally, only the direct sound of thunder is heard. But refraction can add some additional sound, effectively amplifying the thunder and making it sound louder.

Graphic showing how refraction of sound leads to louder thunderThis is more common in the winter as thunderstorms develop in the warm air above a cooler surface air mass. If the lightning in these "elevated thunderstorms" remains above the inversion, then most of the thunder sound also remains above the inversion. However, much of the sound waves from cloud-to-ground strikes remain below the inversion giving thunder a much louder impact.

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