Lightning safety: Essential resources for businesses
Lightning is a serious safety hazard that can cause injuries or even death. Establishing clear safety protocols helps keep your employees safe during thunderstorms. Discover essential strategies for protecting your personnel and creating a safer, more resilient workplace in our featured articles from Lightning Safety Awareness Week.
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Annual lightning report
With over 2 billion events a year, lightning is a near-constant presence in our atmosphere. But for all its beauty, there’s no denying that lightning brings danger, disruption, and destruction to our lives. A large storm can trigger thousands of flashes over a relatively small area. The 2024 Vaisala Xweather annual lightning report features exclusive data, maps, rankings, and more with a special focus on lightning’s impact on the world’s busiest airports and largest U.S. wind farms.
Prepare for lightning season with Xweather Protect
Thunderstorms are more frequent and intense in the summer. See how you can protect your personnel while minimizing operational downtime in this recorded demo of the Xweather Protect severe weather alerting solution.
How to set up real-time lightning alerts for your locations
How to get ahead of danger with lightning forecast alerts
Examples of alert configurations for different industries
Managing lightning risk at the world's busiest airports
Accurate lightning detection is essential for maintaining safety and minimizing delays. This essential guide explores the impact of lightning risk, showing how alert distance and clear time affect the number and duration of lightning risk episodes at the world's busiest airports.
Detailed airport risk profiles
Top 50 airports ranked by lightning risk
US and global impact maps
Lightning risks for the wind energy industry
Watch this on-demand webinar to see new insights from our analysis of lightning activity around 75,000 wind turbines in more than 1,500 U.S. wind farms in 2023.
How often does lightning strike wind turbines?
Where are wind farms most at risk from lightning?
How can the wind energy industry manage lightning risk?
The global lightning detection leader
We detect the precise time and location of over 2 billion lightning events every year.
No one captures more lightning data
We detect and report more than two billion lightning events every year, all within seconds of the flash. Our global detection network provides reliable real-time lightning data with unsurpassed location accuracy across land and sea, even in the most remote areas beyond the range of radars and satellites.
Global coverage with single-source access
We provide single-source access to standardized global thunderstorm and lightning data 24 hours a day with 99.99% uptime without the need to purchase or maintain additional equipment or systems. Our superior lightning detection networks are accurate to within 100 meters in the U.S. and 1 km globally.
The industry's most-trusted lightning data
With over 40 years of lightning detection experience, no other company can match Vaisala for quality, accuracy, and coverage. Vaisala is the primary source of lightning data for the U.S. Armed Forces, National Weather Service, Federal Aviation Administration, and many international commercial organizations.
Severe weather monitoring and lightning alerts
Xweather Protect delivers an all-in-one solution for weather risk management, real-time storm monitoring, and automated lightning alerts to protect your people, property, and assets in every location worldwide. With real-time alerts, self-managed assets, and flexible notification settings, Xweather Protect ensures you get the right alerts to the right people at the right time.
Global lightning data at your fingertips
The Xweather API delivers the world's most accurate and reliable lightning data wherever and whenever you need it. Get your lightning data directly from the source with easy integration, advanced geospatial capabilities, and industry-leading support. From historical lightning to real-time strike detection and forecasting, our lightning API endpoints are ready to power your weather-sensitive applications and solutions today.
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