Thunderstorms and Lightning (Subscribe)
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Links
USA Today - Lightning information index popular
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/basics/wlightning.htm
Lightning information index. Lightning creates thunder. By definition, a thunderstorm has thunder, which means it has lightning even if you don`t see it. How lightning reaches the ground.
Thinkquest: Lightning popular
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0313194/
Student project with general information, how to protect yourself and a quiz..
Texas Severe Storms Association popular
Non-profit organization founded to bring together amateur and professional severe weather scientists in an attempt to better understand dangerous storms through the collection and diffusion of knowledge.
Tampa Bay, Clearwater Beach Lightning Detection Network popular
http://www.neuvisioninc.com/weather/stormvue.html
Lightning detection network covering Tampa Bay, Clearwater Beach, Belleair and St. Petersburg Florida. Realtime lightning detection showing lightning strikes. Using Boltek and Stormvue to display lightning strikes.
National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI) popular
http://www.lightningsafety.com/
Independent advocate of lightning safety for people and structures. Includes information about their services, lighting strike incidents, safety guidelines, and a reference section of general and technical information.
Lightning Links popular
http://www.sirlinksalot.net/lightning.html
Links to relevant news articles and other sites on lightning, photos, lightning variations, fulgerites, lightning victims, books, and research sites. An extensive and useful compilation.
Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the GHCC popular
Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the GHCC (NASA). Learn about LIS, OTD, LMS, and other space based lightning detection instruments designed, built, and maintained by the Lightning Team.
Information Please: Lightning popular
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/lightning1.html
A short brief on lightning lore, statistics, and safety tips.
Florida Media Communications: Lightning Tracker popular
http://www.flamedia.com/lightning/light.htm
Real-time lightning detector for an area within a 300 mile radius from Tampa, Florida.
Boltek Lightning Detectors popular
Boltek StormTracker and LD-250 Lightning Detectors display lightning strikes live on a map of your area. Can detect and track thunderstorms up to 300 miles away, right from your personal computer.
Savage Planet: Deadly Skies - How Lightning Forms
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageplanet/03deadlyskies/01lforms/indexmid.html
A Channel Thirteen presentation shows how lightning is formed and research with triggered lightning. The animation "A Cloud-to-Ground Strike" provides a clear basic understanding. There is access to other phenomena on this "Savage Planet" plus lightning links
NOAA Economics: Extreme Events: Thunderstorm and High Winds
http://www.economics.noaa.gov/?goal=weather&file=events/storm
Storms cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage each year across the United States from a combination of high winds, hail, lightning, flooding, and tornadoes. NOAA examines the economics, social benefits and cost mitigation of storms.
Lyncole Industries, Inc.
Designs, manufactures, and installs the originally patented XIT Grounding System. Some good information here on grounding for lightning protection.
Los Alamos Sferic Array for Lightning Studies
Lightning research using a ground-based array of low- frequency lightning electric field sensors. One data "product" is a daily map of lightning of a large portion of the contiguous United States.
Lightning: The Shocking Story
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/lightning/
The science and the stories behind the bolts that strike our earth a hundred times every second. National Geographic report on lightning.
Lightning Protection Institute
The Lightning Protection Institute is a nationwide not-for-profit organization and provides information on lightning safety and lightning protection systems for commercial and residential structures.
Lightning Information Center
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/ltgcenter/ltgmain.html
National Weather Service, Melbourne, Florida. A resource of lightning information for east-central Florida.
Lightning Facts
http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/lfacts.htm
A short compendium of information about lightning.
Infography about Lightning
http://www.infography.com/content/370554780760.html
Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of lightning.
Global Atmospherics Lightning Detection
http://www.lightningstorm.com/
Global Atmospherics provides lightning and thunder storm detection equipment and services worldwide.
EUCLID: European Cooperation for Lightning Detection
Information and links to lightning detection networks across Europe. View real-time maps of lightning activity in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia, Norway, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Slovenia.
Colorado Lightning Resource Center
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/?n=ltg.php
Resource for lightning information for the state of Colorado. Knowing more about lightning, its causes, and some basic safety rules can help you and your family avoid needless exposure to the dangers of lightning. From NOAA, a government site.
Bergen Lynradar
Shows real-time lightning activity in the North Sea using a sensor located in Bergen, Norway.