Yeah wow it was a shocker. Lights were blinking out a few times, and my printer decided to restart once. Got lucky that my PC never shut down. The number of people I saw outside during it was a shocker!
That windy.com map is really cool! Is it somehow getting data on individual lightning strikes? That’s something I really wish the BOM had on its radar!
While MetraWeather is the official supplier of lightning data to the BOM, it is a US weather company called AccuWeather that owns and maintains the Australian Lightning Network.
Also I haven’t heard great things about those “relatively cheap” AS3935 sensors, and personally haven’t had much luck using one with ESP Home.
Yeah wow it was a shocker. Lights were blinking out a few times, and my printer decided to restart once. Got lucky that my PC never shut down. The number of people I saw outside during it was a shocker!
That windy.com map is really cool! Is it somehow getting data on individual lightning strikes? That’s something I really wish the BOM had on its radar!
Lightning sensors are “relatively cheap”, if you’ve got good coverage of an area you can triangulate a location.
It seems the BOM do have a view into lightning, but it’s outsourced to an NZ company, so it’s another odd choice by the BOM.
It’s even weirder than just an NZ company too:
Also I haven’t heard great things about those “relatively cheap” AS3935 sensors, and personally haven’t had much luck using one with ESP Home.