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Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the GHCC - http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/
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. |
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Global Atmospherics Lightning Detection - http://www.lightningstorm.com/
Global Atmospherics provides lightning and thunder storm detection equipment and services worldwide. |
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EUCLID: European Cooperation for Lightning Detection - http://www.euclid.org/
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. |
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Texas Severe Storms Association - http://www.tessa.org/
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. |
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Lightning Protection Institute - http://www.lightning.org/
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. |
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Boltek Lightning Detectors - http://www.boltek.com/
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. |
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National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI) - 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. |
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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. |
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Information Please: Lightning - http://www.infoplease.com/spot/lightning1.html
A short brief on lightning lore, statistics, and safety tips. |
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Lightning: The Shocking Story - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/lightning/index.html
The science and the stories behind the bolts that strike our earth a hundred times every second. National Geographic report on lightning. |
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Savage Planet: Deadly Skies - How Lightning Forms - http://www.thirteen.org/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 |
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Unisys Weather: RCM Radar Images - http://weather.unisys.com/radar/rcm.html
A wide variety of real time weather maps. This web site contains thousands of weather related images. As a result, links to these images are grouped by data type, image type and region. |
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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. |
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Lightning Links - 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. |
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Los Alamos Sferic Array for Lightning Studies - http://edot.lanl.gov/
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. |
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Florida Media Communications: Lightning Tracker - http://www.flamedia.com/lightning/light.htm
Real-time lightning detector for an area within a 300 mile radius from Tampa, Florida. |
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Bergen Lynradar - http://www.lynradar.no/
Shows real-time lightning activity in the North Sea using a sensor located in Bergen, Norway. |
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USA Today - Lightning information index - 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. |
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Tampa Bay, Clearwater Beach Lightning Detection Network - 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. |
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Lightning Facts - http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/lfacts.htm
A short compendium of information about lightning. |
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Lyncole Industries, Inc. - http://www.lyncole.com/
Designs, manufactures, and installs the originally patented XIT Grounding System. Some good information here on grounding for lightning protection. |
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Infography about Lightning - http://www.infography.com/content/370554780760.html
Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of lightning. |
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Lightning Strike Survivor - http://www.wvboltz.com
The author, W.V. Boltz, is a lightning strike survivor. He devotes this web site to victims of lightning strike and electrical shock and providing a resource on the topic. |
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All You Need to Know About Lightning - http://www.2dog.com/cat/lightning.html
Detailed information, photographs and video of lightning, thunder, sprites, elves, blue jets, and myths and mythology. |
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Lightning Formation - http://bretaniongroup.com/web/Principio-fisico/
Explanation of the lightning formation process. Mostly in Spanish but the helpful diagrams have English explanations. |