Sometimes it is possible to check the accuracy og the system.
A lightning in a church steeple - the time is known, and the strongest in nearby
The roof is copper and acts as a lightning rod, so nothing happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08AyK9Sr4w

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Today, I spend some time to watch die Google map for BO.

There are some (active) stations far far away from other (>1000km) :

 993 - Maui, Hawaii - United States / Hawaii
 935 - Atalaya  and 665 - Cúcuta - Colombia
1267 - Sint Eustatius - Netherlands Antilles
 913 - Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana and 939 - Fundão - Brazil
1305 - Farm Tivoli - Namibia
1332 - Wolmanansstad
1352 - Pretoria - South Africa
987 - Armavir - Russian Federation
1365 - Doha - Qatar
1307 - Turar and 1357 - Almaty - Kazakhstan
1113 - Bangkok - Thailand
1303 - Hong Kong - China
844 - Rockingham - Australia
973 - Perth - Australia
966 - Darwin, Alawa and 915 - Darwin - Humpty Doo - Australia

The northernmost station is 184 - Inari, Ivalo - Finland, the southernmost is 1325 - Dunedin - New Zealand.

Whats' about the station in the Antarctic ?

Hope, I didn't forget one

We need some stations in Alaska, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Russian Union, Japan ...

Thomas

Hello,
How can I  use this function? Short instruction please
Thanks
Robert

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define("BO_TWITTER_ENABLED",        false);- it's clear to me
define("BO_TWITTER_NAME",             ''); - it's clear to me
define("BO_TWITTER_API_KEY",         ''); - ?
define("BO_TWITTER_API_SECRET",     ''); - ?
define("BO_TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN",     ''); - ?
define("BO_TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET",    ''); -?

Hi

Just new to the forum. First, just to say thanks for a great site, been looking at strikes in real-time for years before going to the mountains.

My question : does anyone store historical lightening strike data? I'm interested in data for Switzerland for Saturday 8th August. A list of strikes, long-lat coordinates and timestamp would be awesome.

Thanks for your help !

Stu

Hi, 

I have here at my location am nice lightning cell,  only i get ones an hour a alert to my mail. 
While in the alert itself I have set the time to 10 min. 

What can be the issue?
While in the alert I have set a time of 10 minutes
While in the alert I have set a time of 10 minutes

Hi,

Question, I’m no prof programmer so I hope somebody can help me with the next question.
I need an extra type of alert basically an kind of second SMS type in place of the current URL so you can choose 
email/SMS1/SMS2

I use the URL string not any more so I hope it’s possible to insert on some way an extra SMS-Gateway like this.

define('BO_SMS_GATEWAY_URL1', 'http://URL1');
define('BO_SMS_GATEWAY_URL2', 'http://URL2');

Hi,

I would like to write an open source application for PC/Windows that will provide notification about the nearest lightning occurrences.
Please tell me from where and how can I access realtime data form blitzortung.org.

Thank you in advance,
Mariusz

Hello,
I have problem with my My LightingDetection page http://www.rbalejameteo.pl/wyladowania/i...bo_lang=en
After instalation php and data base page working good. After few days suddendly page stops updates data from blitzortung server. No strikes and statistic. I have system green, station 360. Any ideas?
Robert

Hi there,

I was wondering if there's any (additional) benefit from buying and running such hardware (except from better lightning localisation). I was thinking of a backling from the main-site blitzortung.org to my own website, where e.g. I could describe what we are doing here.

I was searching for an existing thread, but could not find. If there's one pls (re)move this entry.

Thanks and best regards,

Swissmac

Hi,

At the moment informations, 3rd party additions, tips and tricks, FAQs, are spread across forums, sub-forums and websites, possibly hard to overlook for newcomers and people who don't spend a lot of time in forums.

It would be nice to have a wiki, editable by bo-users on blitzortung.org. Maybe it could replace the "Service" tab.
Just an idea.