The high-tech sensors combine lightning location with meteorological and environmental data and alert fire authorities to ...

Canada has some of the most advanced lightning detection technology in the world. Every flash is logged in real time by the ...

Vaisala has developed a product that improves lightning detection. Through the use of a Vaisala-patented location algorithm, the Total Lightning Processor improves the lightning detection location ...

The National Lightning Detection Network uses strategically placed antennae to listen for these radio waves produced by lightning. It’s now able to locate about 97 percent of the cloud-to-ground ...

The dots represent superbolts, lightning with an energy of at least 1 million joules, while red dots are particularly large superbolts, with an energy of more than 2 million joules ...

During a recent thunderstorm, data from the detector showed how one of the lightning strikes that reached the ground was at Potts Road and had a strength of about 21,000 amps, according to ...

Location of each lightning strike or individual lightning flash from 3 a.m. May 15, 2025 to 3 a.m. May 16, 2025. (Data and map provided courtesy of Vaisala Xweather) Vaisala ...