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If anyone needs historic data, let me know. They don't give it out if you're not a contributor, but becoming a contributor costs over a hundred euros and has a multi-decade waitlist if you're not from an area without coverage (very good coverage in Europe, of course..) so I decided not to wait for that. The data is Creative Commons so I felt it should be okay to collect for research and fun purposes
I've been using this for years. It's very useful in the summer season for hiking. There's an Android app that lets you configure alert if there's a lightning strike nearby. IIRC you could also buy their detector hardware and join the network to help improve accuracy.
> There's an Android app that lets you configure alert if there's a lightning strike nearby. Does it play a thunder sound? ;)
If anyone needs historic data, let me know. They don't give it out if you're not a contributor, but becoming a contributor costs over a hundred euros and has a multi-decade waitlist if you're not from an area without coverage (very good coverage in Europe, of course..) so I decided not to wait for that. The data is Creative Commons so I felt it should be okay to collect for research and fun purposes
What's the best way to reach out to you? This dataset would be amazing for my students
I expect it'll indeed be good for students, can be fun to parse various statistics out of: from simple day-of-week counts, or how many strikes land near a few given cities/places (coordinates+radius), to exceedingly complex/predictive. We had some fresh-from-university developers apply who were not able to handle it properly, so also from an employer's POV I can recommend using some large dataset as teaching material (too big for RAM after decompression, but easily fits onto your SSD/HDD and it's decompressible sequentially on the fly to work with it)
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Do you have any statistics about lightning-related injuries or deaths in showers?
I had to look it up, because this seems like a pretty unrealistic fear to me. What I fond: > less than 1 in 1 million chance of being struck by lightning directly or indirectly > One-third of all lightning injuries occur indoors. I'm pretty terrible at statistics, but I think we can assume that there's a less than 1 in 3 million chance to be injured by lightning indoors. But lightning related injuries indoors could a…
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I had to look it up, because this seems like a pretty unrealistic fear to me. What I fond: > less than 1 in 1 million chance of being struck by lightning directly or indirectly > One-third of all lightning injuries occur indoors. I'm pretty terrible at statistics, but I think we can assume that there's a less than 1 in 3 million chance to be injured by lightning indoors. But lightning related injuries indoors could a…
Not to disagree with you general point, but applying general risks to specific situations is not proper use of statistics. Once a thunderstorm is on, the risk just multiplied from the baseline risk for the people in the area. And it grows again for people who take a shower.
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Interesting to note that "electricity arcing through air" is pretty much exactly how our first radio transmitters worked, including the device used to send the first transatlantic signal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter
That’s also why the German word for radio translates to “spark” :)
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That is easier said than done, especially in an old house.
But its still a massively better approach long term rather than making up some hacking project, quadruple that if one owns the place. I mean sure its nice to see such creativity, but in our lifetimes how often do we see some... lets say a bit different folks being obsessed in one topic, neglecting all other aspects or much simpler, yet less 'hacked on my own' solutions. I mean it literally, one example out of endless…
It's just not as easy as slapping together a warning sign about incoming storms.