App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East

That's kind of amazing. You could use weather app data to remove ~all the lightning and the remainder would be a livestream of missile strikes and bombings. Insane.

Re: App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East

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Post by throawayonthe » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC

are you sure it isn't actually thunderstorms? https://www.ventusky.com/thunderstorms-map/cape-shear

Re: App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East

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Post by guerrilla » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC

Are you sure about that? There have been thunderstorms all over the Middle East this week. It was flooding in Oman a few days ago and today it's raining in Iran. There's video of the lightning from various places.

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Post by thomasgeelens » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

I was like: wow there is an app that tracks real-time lighting? Cool! Then I went.. oh.

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Post by dguest » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 4:56 PM UTC

exitb wrote: post #3

How could it possibly work like that? Isn't the detection based on lightning radio emissions?

Yeah, check out the service that www.windy.com uses:

https://www.nowcast.de/en/

it's an array of VLF/LF radio antenna.

Re: App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East

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Post by quuxplusone » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

This headline seems editorialized, given that the URL just goes to maps.blitzortung.org, which makes no such claim (and AFAICT the map shows no unusual activity around Iran as of this particular instant either — maybe it did an hour ago, for all I know).

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Post by 0dayman » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 4:59 PM UTC

false headline, static map, bullshit app