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Blitzortung Lightning Monitor

Posted By: Kate RussellPosted date: October 30, 2014

Blitzortung Lightning Monitor – Android FREE

There has been lots of dramatic weather across the world lately. If you want to track the intensity of the thunderstorms check out the Blitzortung Lightning Monitor app for android. It hooks you into the live data being collected by an army of hobbyists across Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand, who have assembled home lightening detection stations to pick up electromagnetic discharges in the atmosphere. If you want to totally geek out take a look at the parent website, Blitzortung.org, to see the requirements for setting up own lightening detection station.

Kate Russell

Kate Russell is a technology reporter, speaker and author. She appears weekly on the Webscape segment of the BBC technology show Click, and is a regular expert at various other TV and radio stations. Kate's first book, ‘Working the Cloud’, is the ultimate collection of online tips, tricks and resources for small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs. Her first novel, ‘Elite: Mostly Harmless’, is a sci-fi story based on a remake of the computer game Elite Dangerous.