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Good in it? Strikes and hearing the sound are bang on when you allow for wind speed.
So how do they do it in real time?
Knowing where the strike is and banging it on the website in no time at all?
We’ve just had a nice bit of thunder and a spot of lightning over Goring way and the rain is about to hit.
Prefer it's German sibling Blitzortung.org just because it's a cooler name.
"LightningMaps.org is an additional service to the main project Blitzortung.org."
App seems a bit hit and miss (pun intended) but when it's fully working its fascinating. Especially this time of year when the sky can go full nuts in the space of an hour.
Just had half a dozen strikes touch down in the trees at the bottom of the garden - Very spectacular! Router freaked out and was lit up like a Blackpool Tram for about 45 minutes!
Hopefully the cat that shits on my lawn has been reduced to a smoldering pile of fur and arse.
I remember using it in the past and it was excellent, the expanding circles seemed to match exactly with when you heard the sound, I thought it was really very clever.
I've been using it today however and it seems all over the place; flashes and bangs outside with nothing on the map, or circles passing over on the map and nothing outside. Not quite sure what's going on.
Router freaked out and was lit up like a Blackpool Tram for about 45 minutes!
I’ve got into the habit of getting a beer from the fridge, unplugging the computers/back up drives and guitar toys until it’s all over and just peer out of the window. Even with surge protection plug boards I get twitchy.
Forest of Dean and the surrounding area getting hit at the moment...
https://lmaps.org/#-2.2;51.87;9
Hopefully the cat that shits on my lawn has been reduced to a smoldering pile of fur and arse.
Plenty of big rumbles and flashes and tipping it down in Worksop, North Notts - was about 10 minutes away from heading out for a ride - might leave it for now!
My boss at work told me it was the best thing I had ever done when I emailed around a link to lightningmaps.org during a thunder storm. Not sure what that says about the rest of my work but a compliment is a compliment.
Hopefully the cat that shits on my lawn has been reduced to a smoldering pile of fur and arse.
You've never mentioned you don't like cats before 🙂
House was struck in Swansea a week or so ago. Roof burnt completely off!
It’s not just here...
This was grabbed about ten minutes ago, very much ongoing.
So how do they do it in real time?
It looks like it works a bit like flightradar, with lots of individual people having a bit of hardware to in this case detect the lightning. They then process it to try and work out where the centre of each strike is:
http://en.blitzortung.org/cover_your_area.php
Got to love this stuff really
@leffeboy - thanks for posting that, I’d wondered how the system worked, and where stations were located. I’d volunteer, except for the fact that my level of understanding required for operating the station is effectively zero. 😕