Hiya,
Rubbing my hands with glee!

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/el.../i_dag_na.html

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/..._warnings.html

http://www.malvernwx.co.uk/lightning_data/lightning.htm

Rob.

Rubbing my hands with glee!

Can someone explain to me why the lightning I saw at about 3.15
this afternoon, and several claps of thunder in the next hour,
never appeared on http://www.ukstorms.com/ ?

Anne
Moray Firth

Anne Burgess wrote:
Rubbing my hands with glee!

Can someone explain to me why the lightning I saw at about 3.15
this afternoon, and several claps of thunder in the next hour,
never appeared on http://www.ukstorms.com/ ?

Anne
Moray Firth


Where are you? I look at various sites for lightning tracks but a lot
of them miss storms around Powys and mid wales. I can only assume this
is to do with the moutainous nature of round here not allowing RF
signature to propagate out of this area.

If you look at

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/el.../i_dag_na.html

It does tend to be accurate. For instance you can see loads of events
in mid wales. They appear nowhere else.

Rob.

Anne Burgess wrote:
Rubbing my hands with glee!

Can someone explain to me why the lightning I saw at about 3.15
this afternoon, and several claps of thunder in the next hour,
never appeared on http://www.ukstorms.com/ ?

Anne
Moray Firth


Actually just a thought, there may be no Bolteks where you are, the
Moray Firth (which I read when I read your post back again!

Rob.

Rubbing my hands with glee!

Can someone explain to me why the lightning I saw at about
3.15 this afternoon, and several claps of thunder in the next
hour, never appeared on http://www.ukstorms.com/ ?

Anne
Moray Firth
Actually just a thought, there may be no Bolteks where you
are, the Moray Firth (which I read when I read your post back
again!

Rob

Thanks. We don't get that many storms here, but today's pathetic
effort was the second this month.

Anne
On the (normally) sunny southern shores of the Moray Firth

In article ,
says...
Can someone explain to me why the lightning I saw at about 3.15
this afternoon, and several claps of thunder in the next hour,
never appeared on http://www.ukstorms.com/ ?


http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/el...I_dag_na.html? appears to
have caught them.

Many of the lightning sites appear to ignore isolated or occasional
strikes, dismissing them as noise or something.



--
Alan LeHun

"Anne Burgess" wrote in message
...
Rubbing my hands with glee!

Can someone explain to me why the lightning I saw at about 3.15 this
afternoon, and several claps of thunder in the next hour, never appeared
on http://www.ukstorms.com/ ?

Anne
Moray Firth
Actually just a thought, there may be no Bolteks where you are, the Moray
Firth (which I read when I read your post back again!

Rob

Thanks. We don't get that many storms here, but today's pathetic effort
was the second this month.


Having looked at this and other sites like them before I have to say I find
them very unreliable in terms of providing accurate data.

No system of detection is 100% accurate but IMHO there's now 3 good sites
that stand out :-

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/el.../i_dag_na.html (data from the MetO
ATD system)

http://www.euclid.org/realtime.html (delayed data/no time stamp but wide
area of coverage across Europe)

and Meteocentre http://meteocentre.com/lightning/map...time=0&lang=en

I've looked closely at Meteox's offering too but I'm not sure what their
data source is and their sferic 'markers' often don't appear to fit reality.
Or it may be that they're displaced from where they should be on the
overlay.

All these sites are linked within the sferics section on Metbrief
http://www.metbrief.com/imagery.html (apologies for the plug)

Jon.