See http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en .
I find these maps very useful as they give advanced warnings of approaching storms. Even when storms are some way away you can get surges that can damage equipment. With approaching storms I tend to disconnect radios and PCs and unplug antennas and mains connectors.
Years ago, a friend at work got struck (his house) and I have always been a bit wary since. Thunder and lightning can be very nasty.
It's interesting to match these maps with other geographic data. For instance, I once helped build an animation displaying lightning strikes in a particular area over a period of a few hours, along with data from people's home electrical power meters over the same period. A wave of brief outages followed closely on the wave of lightning strikes.
ReplyDeleteOnce did a 2 metre dx contest on top of Ingleborough then a summer thunder storm moved right over head. I didnt half get down that mountain side!!
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