We had a couple of storms go through our area yesterday. With the first round of storms, the Tempest reported almost 2600 lightning strikes within a period of about 1.5 hours. With the second round, the Tempest reported a little over 1900 strikes within a period of about 1 hour. Does that strike co…

I think that is 40km, not 40 miles.

true, the official specs show 40 km though I just had one coming with 47 km here and Weather34 seems to catch even way over the limit mentioned. Guess Franklin gives a ‘sure’ range. But indeed officially it is 40 km thanks for pointing it out

Thanks everyone for the information. We had another storm system go through last night and the Tempest measured over 3400 strikes within a time span of about 1.5 hours. I’m not sure how to verify these numbers are correct. According to the Tempest map, there are a few Air/Sky stations that are som…

I would think if the transmission lines were causing problems, you’d see strikes even in good weather. Were you closer to the storms than the other stations you mentioned? If so, that could account for your higher strike count.

yes that was my initial reaction as well, but then I figured that perhaps it is also pretty moist. I don’t know the exact conditions, but there might leak some current through sparks on the electric wires. @bchelbig 3400 strikes is a lot, but remember it covers a detection area of 1250 square km. F…

[image] bchelbig: According to the Tempest map, there are a few Air/Sky stations that are somewhat close but none closer than 15 miles or so. Those systems registered a significantly lower strike count than mine for the same time period. The AIR+SKY stations don’t have the same hardware + bac…

i think they both use the same lightning detector. However the parameters defining the sensitivity of the detector can be changed on the tempest. In your case it almost looks as something is wrong with you air unit. @dsj does the air use the same smarts to add extra lightning that wasn’t detected b…

Maybe I misunderstood but I thought this statement by David meant that Tempest had things that the AIR didn’t for various reasons. Here is a quote from https://community.tempest.earth/t/lightning-reports-tempest/6262/25?u=gizmoev [image] On another topic Our primary goal is to provide users wit…

I think those statements by David were very general statements not super specific for the tempest (even though he mentioned it). As an example, the raincheck functionality, first introduced for the sky unit, would fit those statements. I don’t think that adding missed strikes back in later via the s…

[image] sunny: @dsj does the air use the same smarts to add extra lightning that wasn’t detected by the unit? i would think so, but does it? [image] gizmoev: I thought this statement by David meant that Tempest had things that the AIR didn’t for various reasons. The answer is the Tempe…

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