lightning

Keeping students safe these days with all of the dangers in the world is already difficult enough, without dropping extreme weather into the mix.
Take Halloween, Oct. 31, 2008 for example. Students at the Texas based Buffalo High School in Dallas County managed to avoid a lightning strike that took place directly over their heads in [...]

It’s sometimes one of those things we take for granted. And as we can see from this video below, despite the best efforts of those to stay clear from lightning born danger, sometimes tragedy is not easily avoided.

The idea of lightening detection has been tossed around for years. However now thanks to WeatherBug, IntraCloud and Cloud-to-Ground lightening detection provided in a real world network has become a reality.
Why lightening detection is important?
Outside of the obvious, why is there so much interest in being able to detect lightening as it is happening? One [...]