Lightning Strike Maps for Pacific Northwest and USA

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Washington's Evergreen Coast

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Lightning Strike Map - Northwest

Lightning Strike Map - USA

Above are delayed static images of Lightning strikes.
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How does Lightning Detection work?
There is a network of lightning detectors around the United States monitoring for lightning strikes. These detectors all send their data to a central server where software triangulates their data and presents the results in near real-time on the image above.

Information courtesy of:
LightningMaps.org CC BY-SA 4.0 / Lightning data by Blitzortung.org and contributors
LightningMaps.org

Lightning map and data courtesy of Blitzortung.org hobbyist lightning detection network.
Data supplied by Blitzortung network members using their home-built Blitzortung hardware.

Thanks to Ken True at Saratoga Weather for the image links.