On Thursday, 13 August 2015 00:20:02 UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Looking at its current track, eastern bit, looks like I might be in with
a chance.
Dave

I you get it so will I and I go to bed later than you. I go to bed later than almost everybody. Blitzortung is looking quite menacing.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On 12/08/2015 21:15, Alan LeHun wrote:

In article ,
says...
This links my favourite...
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en


Think it must be everyone's favorite. There is nothing else that comes
close to it.


Unfortunately it still seems to miss a lot of the lightning here, when
there's a live storm around...


--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 7:36:09 PM UTC+1, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
On 12/08/2015 19:02, Graham P Davis wrote:
Nice(?) bunch of storms showing up on Blitzortung:
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/...g=en&page_0=12


This links my favourite...
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en


That's impressive, I've not seen that before I like the advancing thunder 'front', moving at the speed of sound!

It says 'real time' but there must be some delay, perhaps it's of the order of 15 mins like the rainfall radar.

Col

On 13/08/2015 07:54, wrote:
On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 7:36:09 PM UTC+1, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
On 12/08/2015 19:02, Graham P Davis wrote:
Nice(?) bunch of storms showing up on Blitzortung:
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/...g=en&page_0=12


This links my favourite...
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en


That's impressive, I've not seen that before I like the advancing thunder 'front', moving at the speed of sound!

It says 'real time' but there must be some delay, perhaps it's of the order of 15 mins like the rainfall radar.

Col


Such a tight cluster on this
http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm
as main receiver is on the IoW, presumably quite accurate

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 23:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:

On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 7:36:09 PM UTC+1, Keith (Southend)G
wrote:
On 12/08/2015 19:02, Graham P Davis wrote:
Nice(?) bunch of storms showing up on Blitzortung:
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/...g=en&page_0=12


This links my favourite...
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en


That's impressive, I've not seen that before I like the advancing
thunder 'front', moving at the speed of sound!

It says 'real time' but there must be some delay, perhaps it's of the
order of 15 mins like the rainfall radar.


The delay is displayed top left, currently running at about 6-10
seconds. The data is from
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en
but with a different display. That site can tell you how the data is
gathered and, if you're interested, how you could take part.


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On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 23:54:47 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

It says 'real time' but there must be some delay, perhaps it's of the order of 15 mins like the rainfall radar.

Box, top left. When I looked a minute ago the delay was 5.2 seconds.

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On 13/08/2015 01:50, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Thursday, 13 August 2015 00:20:02 UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Looking at its current track, eastern bit, looks like I might be in with
a chance.
Dave

I you get it so will I and I go to bed later than you. I go to bed later than almost everybody. Blitzortung is looking quite menacing.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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I think I'm probably second last then most nights! I waited till the
street lights were turned off at 1.00 am to watch meteors(one
advantage)but of course it had clouded up by then.
In the event rain didn't quite make it here - did you get it Tudor?
Dave

On Thursday, 13 August 2015 06:51:40 UTC+1, vidcapper wrote:
On 12/08/2015 21:15, Alan LeHun wrote:


says...
This links my favourite...
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en


Think it must be everyone's favorite. There is nothing else that comes
close to it.


Unfortunately it still seems to miss a lot of the lightning here, when
there's a live storm around...


--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham
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Same here Paul.
What happened to the thunderstorms for SW England?
Have n't heard a dicky bird here.
Once again the English Channel is too wide down here for the storms from France to retain their electrical activity as they come north.
It seems you have to be roughly east of IOW for the thunderstorms to survive the shorter sea passage.

Len
Wembury, SW Devon

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On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 8:20:52 AM UTC+1, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 23:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:

On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 7:36:09 PM UTC+1, Keith (Southend)G
wrote:
On 12/08/2015 19:02, Graham P Davis wrote:
Nice(?) bunch of storms showing up on Blitzortung:
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/...g=en&page_0=12


This links my favourite...
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en


That's impressive, I've not seen that before I like the advancing
thunder 'front', moving at the speed of sound!

It says 'real time' but there must be some delay, perhaps it's of the
order of 15 mins like the rainfall radar.


The delay is displayed top left, currently running at about 6-10
seconds. The data is from
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en
but with a different display. That site can tell you how the data is
gathered and, if you're interested, how you could take part.


Thanks.
I did see that but considered the time shown to be far too short to receive, process and send out the data.
All I need now is some thunder this evening to put it to the test

Col

On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 9:51:49 AM UTC+1, Len Wood wrote:
On Thursday, 13 August 2015 06:51:40 UTC+1, vidcapper wrote:
On 12/08/2015 21:15, Alan LeHun wrote:


says...
This links my favourite...
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en


Think it must be everyone's favorite. There is nothing else that comes
close to it.


Unfortunately it still seems to miss a lot of the lightning here, when
there's a live storm around...


--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham
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Same here Paul.
What happened to the thunderstorms for SW England?
Have n't heard a dicky bird here.
Once again the English Channel is too wide down here for the storms from France to retain their electrical activity as they come north.
It seems you have to be roughly east of IOW for the thunderstorms to survive the shorter sea passage.

Len
Wembury, SW Devon

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Thunderstorms in Dawlish overnight. I was woken by heavy rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning. That's the nature of this kind of activity. Some get the storms, some don't.