I’m working on a gauge that shows the lightning strike distance from my tempest. From the API I can get: avgStrikeDistance, strikeCount, and as a summary: strikeCount1h, strikeCount3h, strikeLastDist, strikeLastEpoch. But none of those tell me if the storm is approaching or departing? I can compar…

I get that it is not easy and my station’s data alone is probably not enough to make a determination. But the weatherFlow cloud has a ton more data then just my station’s lightning strike data. I was thinking they could do the number crunching on the back end and push it out to the stations in the…

Here is a plot of a storm my tempest observed last month. The top graph shows the lightning distance in miles, and the second graph is the barometric pressure. [Screen Shot 2020-10-06 at 8.47.03 AM] You can see a clear trend at the beginning that shows the storm approaching (distance getting small…

I suggest you use the 5 nearest strikes, if the average distance of those is getting significanly less over time the storm is getting closer, if it is getting bigger, the storm is departing. Note that it doesn’t mean the storm will go over your location, it might be passing by at 15km distance. Just…

I think I have something that is going to work for my needs. When lightning is first detected I flag it is as approaching. Once the lightning is overhead (within 5 miles) I then flag all strikes as overhead / departing. My goal is to give the observer of the gauge some type of indication as to whe…

interesting, more informative than just “15 miles”. Weatherflow could use some of this programming tech to say instead “15 miles and departing”. Just wondering how you handle multiple storms like this: [image]

I had a similar storm to that in one of my test runs. It first appears as a distant 25 mile strike, approaches and then departs and then another cluster of lightning approaches and departs over and over. As the algorithm stands now the gauge would show the first initial 25 miles of strikes on the …

of course it would be hard to know that another is approaching but you might be able to detect the second storm at 1:15. You might get inspiration from something I suggested to David in my post from july 17 [App] Better control over lightning strike alerts

That is an awesome thread! I like how the zones are setup and the alerts are sent. “sunny zones” smile. I think I’m going to table the lightning gauge for now and focus on the easy stuff. I want to get something I can hang on the wall and start testing.

really amazing Thread. Wondering if it could be possible using a kind of triangulation. For example. I dont know if the timestamp includes a kind of unique way to identify the time for all the tempest system but… A tempest system had a strike count and it is inside two “Distance circle” (minimum …

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Lightning Strike Trend (storm is approaching or departing)

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