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- EUCLID: European Cooperation for Lightning Detection - Information and links to lightning detection networks across Europe. View real-time maps of lightning activity in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia, Norway, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Slovenia.
- Florida Media Communications: Lightning Tracker - Real-time lightning detector for an area within a 300 mile radius from Tampa, Florida.
- Global Atmospherics Lightning Detection - Global Atmospherics provides lightning and thunder storm detection equipment and services worldwide.
- Infography about Lightning - Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of lightning.
- Information Please: Lightning - A short brief on lightning lore, statistics, and safety tips.
- Lightning Facts - A short compendium of information about lightning.
- Lightning Information Center - National Weather Service, Melbourne, Florida. A resource of lightning information for east-central Florida.
- Lightning Links - Links to relevant news articles and other sites on lightning, photos, lightning variations, fulgerites, lightning victims, books, and research sites. An extensive and useful compilation.
- Lightning Protection Institute - The Lightning Protection Institute is a nationwide not-for-profit organization and provides information on lightning safety and lightning protection systems for commercial and residential structures.
- Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the GHCC - Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the GHCC (NASA). Learn about LIS, OTD, LMS, and other space based lightning detection instruments designed, built, and maintained by the Lightning Team.
- Lightning: The Shocking Story - The science and the stories behind the bolts that strike our earth a hundred times every second. National Geographic report on lightning.
- Lyncole Industries, Inc. - Designs, manufactures, and installs the originally patented XIT Grounding System. Some good information here on grounding for lightning protection.
- NOAA Economics: Extreme Events: Thunderstorm and High Winds - Storms cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage each year across the United States from a combination of high winds, hail, lightning, flooding, and tornadoes. NOAA examines the economics, social benefits and cost mitigation of storms.
- National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI) - Independent advocate of lightning safety for people and structures. Includes information about their services, lighting strike incidents, safety guidelines, and a reference section of general and technical information.
- Savage Planet: Deadly Skies - How Lightning Forms - A Channel Thirteen presentation shows how lightning is formed and research with triggered lightning. The animation "A Cloud-to-Ground Strike" provides a clear basic understanding. There is access to other phenomena on this "Savage Planet" plus lightning links
- Tampa Bay, Clearwater Beach Lightning Detection Network - Lightning detection network covering Tampa Bay, Clearwater Beach, Belleair and St. Petersburg Florida. Realtime lightning detection showing lightning strikes. Using Boltek and Stormvue to display lightning strikes.
- Texas Severe Storms Association - Non-profit organization founded to bring together amateur and professional severe weather scientists in an attempt to better understand dangerous storms through the collection and diffusion of knowledge.