In this video, forecaster Jack Sillin explains how to use our exclusive lightning analysis product that maps lightning strikes down to street level!
Lightning Analysis At Weather.us
10/09/2017/
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Jack Sillin
Jack Sillin is an Atmospheric Science student (Cornell '22) and weather forecaster who regularly writes for weather.us and upportland.com. Follow me on twitter @JackSillin.
Hi Jack,
I couldn’t find anything on the technology which acquires the data on the lightning measurements. How are these measured and quantified and then displayed on the map,
Thanks in advance for your help,
Mark
Hi Mark,
While I can’t go into super detailed specifics about where our lightning data comes from and how exactly it’s calculated, I can point you to this resource for the National Lightning Detection Network which gives some insight into the sensor network used to produce these maps: https://www.vaisala.com/sites/default/files/documents/MET-G-NLDN-Brochure-B210412EN-E_Low.pdf hopefully that is helpful!
Best,
Jack
Thanks, Jack very cool. We have many thunderstorms so I will use this tool.