Worldwide, but you link to the US page?
Real-time lightning map, worldwide
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Re: Real-time lightning map, worldwide
#42They also have an overlay for Google maps: http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime
I believe this one also shows you an approximation of the thunder, so if you are close enough to a strike you can actually tell when you will hear the thunder. We were playing with it over the weekend and it was surprisingly accurate!
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#43I see they have engineered their own detectors [1], but could cellphones be used as EMP detectors? They have GPS and antennas after all. [1] http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page=3
You just need to find a Maxwell HSN-1000 Nuclear Event Detector. Very handy part.
http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/docs/hsn100...
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not the reality, it's just reflecting the coverage.
True, of course, but it's also worth remarking that there are huge spatial differences in lightning frequency due to the specific mechanisms causing thunderstorms. I live in the U.S., and you rarely see t-storms on the Pacific coast here because the nearby Pacific Ocean is cool (due, in turn, to cool water brought down by the clockwise-turning North Pacific Gyre). But t-storms are very common in the Midwest and South…
We get plenty of thunder here in the North East as well, even the occasional instance of thunder snow. Lightning is much more common in a majority of the US, excepting much of the lower west coast and southwest.
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#45Just before seeing this on HN, I randomly came across this article on "dark lightning" -- a burst of gamma rays that accompanies the RF burst that precedes visible lightning.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130424210319.ht...
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#46I think this mashed up with other "radars" like flight and ship radar would be impressive.
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#47Nice map
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#48I see they have engineered their own detectors [1], but could cellphones be used as EMP detectors? They have GPS and antennas after all. [1] http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page=3
You just need to find a Maxwell HSN-1000 Nuclear Event Detector. Very handy part. http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/docs/hsn100...
Hah! Cute part. I'm curious - do you just happen to know of this part or have you been involved with projects that use if?
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#49I don't know how complete it claims to be (in terms of what fraction of lightning strikes in notionally covered areas it catches), but right now there's a storm very close to me (Cambridge, UK) and it's displaying a good fraction, but not all, of the strikes I see and hear.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
You just need to find a Maxwell HSN-1000 Nuclear Event Detector. Very handy part. http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/docs/hsn100...
Hah! Cute part. I'm curious - do you just happen to know of this part or have you been involved with projects that use if?
If I did use it, I probably couldn't talk about it...