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EXPLORE · LIVE GLOBAL VIEW
See more than where storms are. Understand how they move.
Lightning Front connects live lightning, thousands of detection stations, rain context and automatically tracked storm cells. This is where the story behind the map comes to life.
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GLOBAL ACTIVITY
The network in numbers
Totals have been accumulating since the global collector came online.
PAST 30 DAYS
Accumulated lightning activity
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LIVE EVENTS
Storm cells with a story of their own
Select a region for movement, uncertainty, timeline and weather context.
Place names are resolved locally using GeoNames, so active clusters are not continuously sent to an external geocoder.
FROM RADIO WAVE TO MAP
How Lightning Front follows a lightning event
Lightning is not “seen” by a single antenna. The network calculates a location from the same radio signal reaching several receivers.
Receivers listen
A lightning event produces a very short radio pulse. Stations such as 3279 record its precise arrival time.
The network calculates
Differences in arrival time determine the location. Select a strike to inspect the participating station lines.
Lightning forms clusters
Nearby lightning events are grouped into an active storm cell every five minutes.
Movement gains context
Earlier and recent positions provide direction, speed and a broad uncertainty zone. Rain and wind add context.
PERSONAL RECEIVER · STATION 3279
One station makes the global network personal.
The receiver at home continuously provides timing information to Blitzortung. Lightning Front stores only sanitised technical statistics and builds its own verifiable participation history.
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