A Month of Lightning is an interactive map of all 80,305,421 lightning strikes that occurred across the globe inward May 2013.
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Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Rousseau was able to travel Tippercanoe to procedure the May 2013 lightning information from Weather Decision Technologies. The effect is this impressive Mapbox map which allows yous to persuasion over lxxx i chiliad k global lightning strikes from only i month.
You tin read to a greater extent than well-nigh how the map was made inward Jordan's weblog post, Visualizing a Month of Lightning.
If yous desire to encounter where lightning is hitting correct forthwith thus yous tin also banking concern jibe out these 2 real-time lightning maps.
LighteningMaps is a alive Google Map of lightning strikes across the globe. Animated flashing circles light-up on the map to tape each lightning strike thus it is slow to encounter where inward the globe electrical storms are occurring correct now.
Blitzortung.org industrial plant amongst a community of users, who accept built their ain lightning receivers, to automatically display alive lightning information on a Google Map.
Blitzortung.org includes instructions on how yous tin construct your ain lightning monitor as well as also includes instructions on how yous tin construct your ain Google Map based on the information received from a lightning monitor.
If yous can't survive bothered to construct your ain lightning box yous tin ever only banking concern jibe out Blitzortung's alive Google Map of lightning strikes.
