thunderstorms and lightning

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• - Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of lightning.
  
• - Real-Time Lightning Detector - 300 mile radius From Tampa Florida.
  
• - A compilation of a variety of educational resources, photos and sounds on lightning for all ages. Some excellent original photos.
  
• - A Channel Thirteen presentation shows how lightning is formed and research with triggered lightning. The animation "A Cloud-to-Ground Strike" provides a clear basic understanding. There is access to other phenomena on this "Savage Planet&
  
• - Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the GHCC (NASA). Learn about LIS, OTD, LMS, and other space based lightning detection instruments designed, built, and maintained by the Lightning Team.
  
• - Manufactures specialized and high-tech lightning arrestors for power lines and antennas. Many downloadable PDF information sheets on protection and safety.
  
• - The science and the stories behind the bolts that strike our earth a hundred times every second. National Geographic report on lightning.
  
• - Lightning information index. Lightning creates thunder. By definition, a thunderstorm has thunder, which means it has lightning even if you don`t see it. How lightning reaches the ground.
  
• - Information and links to lightning detection networks across Europe. View real-time maps of lightning activity in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia, Norway, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Slove
  
• - Designs, manufactures, and installs the originally patented XIT Grounding System. Some good information here on grounding for lightning protection.
  
• - Current "as it happens" Lightning data from The Weather Stop.
  
• - National Weather Service, Melbourne, Florida. A resource of lightning information for east-central Florida.
  
• - Resource for lightning information for the state of Colorado. Knowing more about lightning, its causes, and some basic safety rules can help you and your family avoid needless exposure to the dangers of lightning. NOAA (government site)
  
• - The Lightning Protection Institute is a nationwide not-for-profit organization and provides information on lightning safety and lightning protection systems for commercial and residential structures.
  
• - Boltek StormTracker and LD-250 Lightning Detectors display lightning strikes live on a map of your area. Can detect and track thunderstorms up to 300 miles away, right from your personal computer.
  
• - Storm chasing information, weather photographs, recorded sounds, free desktop theme and screensaver, and links.
  
• - Manufactures and installs static dissipation systems: Grounding, surge protectors, and site inspections. Lightning protection for homes, buildings, towers, factories, petro facilities, and boats. Includes educational lightning section.
  
• - A wide variety of real time weather maps. This web site contains thousands of weather related images. As a result, links to these images are grouped by data type, image type and region.
  
• - Detailed information, photographs and video of lightning, thunder, sprites, elves, blue jets, and myths and mythology.
  
• - Van der Heide, Dutch manufacturer and system integrator of lightning protection and location equipment and related services. Offers online services for the Benelux region including lightning display, notification, analysis.
  
• - The Resource for Weather in the Net: Lightning Network. Live Lightning maps, data, and photographs.
  
• - National Lightning Safety Institute performs Consulting, Education, and Research relating to lightning hazard mitigation. Lightning exhibits random and unpredictable behavior. By adopting a proactive defense, safety levels can be improved and harmful con
  
• - Global Atmospherics provides lightning and thunder storm detection equipment and services worldwide.
  
• - A short brief on lightning lore, statistics, and safety tips.
  
• - Links to relevant news articles and other sites on lightning, photos, lightning variations, fulgerites, lightning victims, books, and research sites. An extensive and useful compilation.
  
• - Rare lightning bolt caught on film on September 11, 2002. Contains pictures and an MPEG video for one of the oddest lightning bolts caught on film.
  
• - Lightning research using a ground-based array of low- frequency lightning electric field sensors. One data "product" is a daily map of lightning of a large portion of the contiguous United States.
  
• - Weather site that includes lightning pictures, weather related pictures, favorite weather links, weather music.