Lightning strikes are quite high energy events, and release plenty of radio frequency energy when they go off in the atmosphere. This makes them easy to detect, and the magnitude of the energy ...

The team at the [LVL1 Hackerspace] put together a lightning detector of their own; one which keeps count of the number of discharges in the atmosphere. The device consists of a typical tank ...

Monitoring lightning behaviour will be central to this capability. Meteosat-12's lightning detector has four telescopic cameras focused on Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of South America.