Lightning detectors can play a crucial role in protecting people as well as equipment in locations prone to violent lightning storms Weather forecasting over the years has been transformed, from ...

In October 2012, Chuck Watlington of Fort Myers got “the phone call that no parent wants to get.” His 11-year-old son, Jesse, had been struck by lightning and was in the emergency room at a local ...

Austriamicrosystems has introduced a lightning sensor IC with an RF receiver that detects the electrical emissions from lightning activity. The device could be used in portable lightning sensors which ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1988-2005), Vol. 42, No. 6 (June 2003), pp. 739-751 (13 pages) ABSTRACT A digital video camcorder, a four-channel analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, and a GPS ...

Unterpremstaetten, Austria — No need to tell this audienceof the damage which lightning does to systems, circuits, and people. While gooddesign practices, carefully placed suppression devices, and use ...

In Palm Beach County, the School District has provided portable lightning detectors for every school since 2003, said Dianne Howard, who heads risk management. Each costs about $300 and has been ...

LIFELINE BY CALLING OR TEXTING NINE, EIGHT, EIGHT. AND ALREADY THIS STORM SEASON, WE’VE HAD A SCARY RUN OF LIGHTNING IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. TAKE A LOOK AT A SNIPPET OF LIGHTNING WE SAW LAST NIGHT. IT WAS ...

You would think detecting lightning would be easy. Each lightning bolt has a staggering amount of power, and, clearly, you can hear the results on any radio. But it is possible to optimize a simple ...