App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East

9 comments

• guerrilla 1 hour ago
  Are you sure about that? There have been thunderstorms all over the Middle East this week. It was flooding in Oman a few days ago and today it's raining in Iran. There's video of the lightning from various places.
• exitb 1 hour ago
  How could it possibly work like that? Isn't the detection based on lightning radio emissions?
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  • dguest 1 hour ago
    Yeah, check out the service that www.windy.com uses:

    https://www.nowcast.de/en/

    it's an array of VLF/LF radio antenna.
• quuxplusone 1 hour ago
  This headline seems editorialized, given that the URL just goes to maps.blitzortung.org, which makes no such claim (and AFAICT the map shows no unusual activity around Iran as of this particular instant either — maybe it did an hour ago, for all I know).
• throawayonthe 1 hour ago
  are you sure it isn't actually thunderstorms? https://www.ventusky.com/thunderstorms-map/cape-shear
• btbuildem 1 hour ago
  That's kind of amazing. You could use weather app data to remove ~all the lightning and the remainder would be a livestream of missile strikes and bombings. Insane.
• akazantsev 1 hour ago
  If that were the case, you could see at least some activity in Ukraine.
• stared 1 hour ago
  Is sad times when Blitzortung becomes a monitor of Blitzkrieg.
• thomasgeelens 1 hour ago
  I was like: wow there is an app that tracks real-time lighting? Cool! Then I went.. oh.
• 0dayman 1 hour ago
  false headline, static map, bullshit app
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  • grumbelbart 59 minutes ago
    The data behind the app is pretty solid, but lightningmaps.org has a much better visualization (based on the same data).