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Lightning
Every lightning strike on Earth in the last half hour, as the community network hears it, each ~11 km cell marked dry or wet from the latest weather radar frame.
What it shows
Every lightning strike on Earth in the last half hour, as the community network hears it, each ~11 km cell marked dry or wet from the latest weather radar frame. Dry lightning, with no rain reaching the ground, is what starts wildfires; a dry cell within 25 km of an active fire is ringed in red. Filters isolate dry, wet and near-a-fire cells.
Where the data comes from
Blitzortung.org community VLF network, relayed by our server and polled every 6 seconds; rain from the RainViewer radar mosaic (latest frame, every 10 minutes); fires from NASA FIRMS, the same feed as the fires layer.
Reading the map
Orange cells are dry, blue are wet, grey have no radar coverage; fresh strikes are pale yellow dots fading to amber over 30 minutes; a red ring marks a dry cell near an active fire.
Units Strikes per ~11 km cell (0.1°); dry or wet from radar within ~3 km of the cell centre.
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