Hey, lets hear it for a day without ANY rain!
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Severe weather.
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Today we got another round of sever weather. We got Tornado Warnings In Central and Northwestern IL. And a total of 7 touchdowns as of 7:56PM.
Oh my god last night was horrible here. At points you could look outside for 1 minute strait without losing light, the lightning was non stop
Aero or one of you other weather buffs, where can i find a chart of lightning strikes from last night Edit #500!! Around the world and back
Wait 5 days to the SPC and the NLDN to sync data. I'll put the link in here. (Lightning data isnt free-its acually very pricey).
BTW...on June 10th there was not 7 touchdowns in the Chicago area. Only one in Joliet (Mike acually didn't see this one! :LOL: )!
Do you remember the 1 big crack of lighting that sound like an explosion? What was weird is it seemed to knock out the power for like 1 seconds but when I went in my living room the only thing that seemed to have gone off and come back on was my microwave because there was no time on it yet the stove time was correct. It was freaky though, when that went off it seemed to have got dark for like a couple of seconds then light again. What really sucked is it was 1:00 am and it felt like 3 or 4 am. 
I did see a lighting map on CLTV from that night and it looked intense, there was lots of pink around our area on that map.  This is where I would usually put stuff. Can't think of anything right now... =/
Lightning that stuck near your house couldnt be heard more than 20 miles away, in this case Timmy couldnt of heard it.
Friday night was pretty crazy here. The storms were on and off til about 4 AM or so. For a while there was lightning every 5 seconds, it was crazy. A garage in Oak Forest got struck by lightning at some point too.
Oh I thought he was up here or somthing. This is where I would usually put stuff. Can't think of anything right now... =/
A little late timmy.
 259,000 stirkes all day.
Is it just me or is that alot of frekkin lightning, I dont know if im looking at it from an uneven perspetive, or not. Is that a high number?
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Um, that is average. If you get a lot of storms in Florida and in Arizona/New Mexico/Washington/Oregon you will see a lot more lightning.
And just think, that is just the lightning in the US. Almost the entire tropical equator has constant thunderstorms.
How exactly do they detect lightning strikes?
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About 150 sensors placed around the CONUS detect magnetic changes in the atmosphere caused by lightning strikes. They are very accurate but don't get everything.
Unfourtunalty this is an expensive service and is not yet availble for free on the internet.
Hmm that makes me wonder. What do these "sensors" look like? Do you know? About 150 feet behind my house there is a steel box (like the ones telephone company uses) except its about 10ft by 10 ft. It has a NOAA sign, and it has a fence on it that says "Highly sensitive magnetic feilds, Do not enter, Trespassers may be persecuted........."
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