MetService Lightning Website

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

MetService have now a lightning web at http://www.metservice.com which costs a lot of money. There is a free viewing site on the METSERVICEWEB where you can view lightning strikes over the past 5 days.



JohnGaul
NZTS

[GraemeWi]

Got a url for the free site?

I've had a look at the plethoria of sites they have and can't spot it!

http://www.met.co.nz

http://www.metservice.co.nz

http://www.metnet.co.nz

http://www.weather.co.nz

Cheers,

G

[Michael]

Try http://www.metservice.com/lightning/index_sml.htm

click on recent data and it shows the dots on the country where the strikes were.

[GraemeWi2]

Ah - thanks for the link, I couldn't see the forest for the trees!

Good idea the map, however it would be more useful if the dots were just limited to the past 0-30 minutes

Maybe one day when I win lotto I can get the full service.

Cheers,

G

[NZstorm]

This lightning chart tells me nothing. It is obviously not aimed at weather followers. Its value is quite limited.

[Michael]

It should be colour-coded for what day it was

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes Steven the website is designed around MetServices commercial arm and not for us weather followers/observers unless one is quite rich, but then...

JohnGaul
NZTS

[GraemeWi]

http://ritz.otago.ac.nz/~sferix/TOGA_ne ... _maps.html

also http://ritz.otago.ac.nz/~sferix/L_plot_ ... MS_map.jpg which is a bit more readable

Might be a bit more use maybe!

http://aviationweather.gov/gcd/graf/expworldt.gif
http://aviationweather.noaa.gov/gcd/gra ... raliat.gif
are also interesting

G

[NZstorm]

Thanks for those links Graeme,

I am aware of the first....does not always show the lightning from around NZ. But can be useful.