String fullTitle = 'Is this weather tracker site legit?';
int postNumber = 1460531;
String image = '1714905406910728.jpg';
String date = '05/05/24(Sun)06:36:46';
String comment = 'https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang
Sometimes it says lightning went off right next to me and I hear or see nothing.'
'>>1460531
If they're using RF to detect strikes, it's possible to get a false positive from a strong, local interference. But you'd think a persistent signal like that would show constant lightning at your location.
The site they pull their data from appears to show the detector stations used to triangulate a strike. The more and distant ones that detect lightning at your location, the likelier it is that it actually happened.';
'>>1460531
Well the biggest problem is the detector stations can also detect stuff like cloud-to-cloud lightning miles up that nobody will hear, and upper-atmospheric lightning that is basically balls of plasma almost in space';
'>>1460531
Mayhe you just can't see the lightning.';
'>>1460659
>>1460682
Is there a radar that just tracks lightning that strikes the ground then?';
'>>1460782
Weather radar tracks precipitation, which is sometimes but not always a precursor of lightning.';
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