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App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East
- throawayonthe 7mo agoare you sure it isn't actually thunderstorms? https://www.ventusky.com/thunderstorms-map/cape-shear https://www.ventusky.com/thunderstorms-map/cape-shear
- stared 7mo agoIs sad times when Blitzortung becomes a monitor of Blitzkrieg.
- exitb 7mo agoHow could it possibly work like that? Isn't the detection based on lightning radio emissions?
- dguest 7mo agoYeah, check out the service that www.windy.com uses: https://www.nowcast.de/en/ https://www.nowcast.de/en/ it's an array of VLF/LF radio antenna.
- btbuildem 7mo agoThat's kind of amazing. You could use weather app data to remove ~all the lightning and the remainder would be a livestream of missile strikes and bombings. Insane.
- guerrilla 7mo agoAre you sure about that? There have been thunderstorms all over the Middle East this week. It was flooding in Oman a few days ago and today it's raining in Iran. There's video of the lightning from various places.
- thomasgeelens 7mo agoI was like: wow there is an app that tracks real-time lighting? Cool! Then I went.. oh.
- quuxplusone 7mo agoThis headline seems editorialized, given that the URL just goes to maps.blitzortung.org, which makes no such claim (and AFAICT the map shows no unusual activity around Iran as of this particular instant either — maybe it did an hour ago, for all I know).
- 0dayman 7mo agofalse headline, static map, bullshit app
- grumbelbart 7mo agoThe data behind the app is pretty solid, but lightningmaps.org has a much better visualization (based on the same data).
- akazantsev 7mo agoIf that were the case, you could see at least some activity in Ukraine.
- opengrass 7mo agoNothing in Iran. 23:00 in eastern Ukraine and nothing shows up.