Tonight’s thunder and lightning is awesome. I haven’t heard thunder like this since South America, five years ago. I recorded the the thunder on a Zoom H2N mic. I deleted chunks of inactivity to shorten the sequence to three minutes in the open source Audacity (a free audio editor).
The 320kbps mp3 should, ideally, be played back on a subwoofer with frequency sensitivity around 40-80Hz; but there is some minor clipping.
The spectrographic display is shown below and the minor clipping is evident on a couple of the ‘claps’.
I’m going to get a short checklist together so that next time I can be ready to capture some thunder and lightning in HD Video and hi-def audio.