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nate_meurer on Aug 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: California family dies under mysterious circumstan...

Thanks! It didn't occur to me that there might be publicly accessible lighting strike data and mapping, but of course there is, duh.

Do you happen to know the sensitivity of the network? That is, the percentage of lighting strikes they expect to catch?

sitkack on Aug 21, 2021 [–]

I don't know that, but they are great questions for lightning researchers. The premier lightning research org (to my knowledge) is in New Mexico.

https://www.nmt.edu/research/organizations/langmuir.php

http://www.lightning.nmt.edu/nmt_lms/

Let us know what you find out!

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