This is pretty amazing. It's real-time lightning strikes all over the globe. The website Blitzortung has been created by a community of people around the world using sensors to triangulate the occurences of lightning all across the globe. I suggest you check it out with your volume on. The 'clicks' you hear are all the lightning strikes occurring and with a latency of 3-6 seconds it's pretty impressive.
I've seen documentaries with images of the earth from space that show the occurrences of lightning and it is quite mesmerising. To get this kind of information normally is a paid service but the group of volunteers part of the Blitzortung community have pulled together to do something quite unique too. Whilst it does rely on sensors actually being available the capabilities of these are pretty powerful.
More importantly they keep data on these lightning strikes and this can prove useful in certain applications.
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