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- All You Need to Know About Lightning - Detailed information, photos and video of lightning, thunder, sprites, elves, blue jets and myths and mythology and more.
www.2dog.com/cat/lightning.html
- Blikseminslagen.com - 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.
www.blikseminslagen.com
- Boltek Lightning Detectors - 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.
www.boltek.com
- Colorado Lightning Resource Center - 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)
www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/ltg.html
- Earthing Systems - Long tutorial on earthing (earth grounding) offers complete instructions for getting a low resistance, or when that is impossible, low impedance - even on solid rock. Explains lightning protection from a capacitance standpoint.
www.tercel.com.au/earthing_systems.htm
- EUCLID: European Cooperation for Lightning Detection - 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 Slovenia.
www.euclid.org
- Florida Media Communications LIVE Lightning Tracker - Real-Time Lightning Detector - 300 mile radius From Tampa Florida.
www.flamedia.com/lightning/light.htm
- Fulgurites.com - All about Fulgurites. Claims to be The world's largest supplier of lightning fulgurites.
fulgurites.com
- Global Atmospherics Lightning Detection - Global Atmospherics provides lightning and thunder storm detection equipment and services worldwide.
www.lightningstorm.com
- Information Please: Lightning - A short brief on lightning lore, statistics, and safety tips.
www.infoplease.com/spot/lightning1.html
- Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the GHCC - 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.
thunder.msfc.nasa.gov
- Lightning Information Center - National Weather Service, Melbourne, Florida. A resource of lightning information for east-central Florida.
www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/ltgcenter/ltgmain.html
- Lightning Links - 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.
www.sirlinksalot.net/lightning.html
- Lightning Prevention Systems - 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.
www.lpsnet.com
- Lightning Protection Institute - 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.
www.lightning.org
- Lightning Strikes - Storm chasing Info, weather photos, recorded sounds, free desktop theme and screensaver, cool links, and more.
geocities.com/samipoohbear/storm.html
- Lightning: The Shocking Story - The science and the stories behind the bolts that strike our earth a hundred times every second. National Geographic report on lightning.
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/lightning/index.html
- Los Alamos Sferic Array for Lightning Studies - 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.
edot.lanl.gov
- Lyncole Industries, Inc. - Designs, manufactures, and installs the originally patented XIT Grounding System. Some good information here on grounding for lightning protection.
www.lyncole.com
- National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI) - 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 consequences from the effects of lightning can be reduced.
www.lightningsafety.com
- PolyPhaser units divert lightning and surge damage - Manufactures specialized and high-tech lightning arrestors for power lines and antennas. Many downloadable PDF information sheets on protection and safety.
www.polyphaser.com
- Sandia Laboratories - Triggered-lightning research from a U.S. Government laboratory, focusing on how to protect concrete buildings from the electromagnetic fields of lightning strikes.
www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN04-25-97/lightning_story.html
- Savage Planet: Deadly Skies - How Lightning Forms - 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" plus lightning links
www.thirteen.org/savageplanet/03deadlyskies/01lforms/indexmid.html
- The Weather Stop - Current "as it happens" Lightning data from The Weather Stop.
www.theweatherstop.com/cgi-bin/hw3/hw3.cgi?config=&forecast=pass&pass=lightning
- Unisys Weather: RCM Radar Images - 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.
weather.unisys.com/radar/rcm.html
- USA Today - Lightning information index - 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.
www.usatoday.com/weather/wlightn0.htm
- Weather Web - The Resource for Weather in the Net: Lightning Network. Live Lightning maps, data, and photographs.
weather.hypermart.net
- West Virginia Lightning - A compilation of a variety of educational resources, photos and sounds on lightning for all ages. Some excellent original photos.
www.wvlightning.com
- whethernut's homepage - Weather site that includes lightning pictures, weather related pictures, favorite weather links, weather music.
home.earthlink.net/~whethernut/index.html
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