// Unrivaled accuracy
Superior lightning data, localized.
Xweather’s lightning API delivers the location and unique characteristics of every lightning strike, now and in the past. This solution integrates Vaisala’s proprietary lightning detection network data, making our unique and well-proven science available at your fingertips.
Popular Features
Lightning location
Filter lightning type (CG/IC)
Real-time and historic data
Lightning threat zones
// Data + Mapping
Real-time lightning in a variety of formats for any platform.
Vaisala Xweather makes access to lightning data easy. For locations that are important to you and your customers, we make our best-in-class data available in modern and responsive ways.
Lightning API
The lightning API provides access to precise global lightning data. Our RESTful API is flexible and easy to use, providing you with everything you need to get location-specific lightning data into any web, native or mobile application.
Lightning Mapping
Leverage lightning map layers to visualize and monitor approaching storms. Our developer-friendly mapping platform provides the flexibility to generate a full weather map or transparent tiles that can be integrated with your favorite mapping library.
Webhooks
Push data in near real-time as lightning occurs. Simply provide an HTTP URL for our Webhooks system to push data to your application.
// Real-time mapping
Stunning visuals of threats.
Full customization
Display of data can be adjusted on the fly to suit your application's needs.
Smooth animations
Gorgeous animations make it fast and easy to understand the data you're visualizing.
Full customization
Display of data can be adjusted on the fly to suit your application's needs.
Smooth animations
Gorgeous animations make it fast and easy to understand the data you're visualizing.
The industry's most robust lightning API.
When you combine Vaisala Xweather's proprietary networks with our advanced API features and parameters, the result is the industry's unrivaled lightning API.
Advanced geospatial capabilities
Our lightning map layers, both vector and raster, offer flexibility and customization options for displaying threats.
Strike type filtering
Lightning strikes that hit the surface make up only 25% of all lightning, but accounts to nearly all damage. Filters help you focus on what matters most to you.
Strike attributes
Strike peak amperage and filtering by positive or negative polarity allows for advanced analysis of lightning events, now and in the past.
Radius searching
When critical safety decisions are made on the distance of lightning from a location our API allows you to get the answer you're looking for.
Route actions
Return lightning data for points along a route.
Lightning threat zones
Advanced nowcasting technology tells you where the threat of lightning is heading next.