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When lightning hits your bottom line

From grounded aircraft to damaged wind turbines, the cost of lightning strikes adds up fast. But what if you could anticipate every storm? From real-time alerts to proactive prevention, Xweather helps you protect what matters most.

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Lighting Safety Awareness Week

Lightning is a serious safety hazard that can cause injuries or even death. Discover essential strategies for protecting your personnel and creating a safer, more resilient workplace

Lightning safety begins with lightning detection

Listening for thunder is an incredibly impractical and unsafe way of deciding when to cease work and bring workers indoors. Fortunately, there is a better way to protect your people and operations from lightning.

How to optimize safety and operational continuity

Every business must balance the needs of safety and continuity. But what’s right for one industry might not be right for another. In this post, we look at the choices you can make to find the best balance for your business.

How does lightning density help us manage risk?

See why lightning density data is a valuable resource for risk assessment, site selection, and operational planning. We'll also show you how to access high-quality lightning density maps for any location on Earth—for free!

The lightning detection evolution

Learn how lightning detection technology has improved over the years and how businesses can harness the latest innovations to protect their personnel from severe weather risks.

Lightning safety alerts anywhere on Earth

Knowing when to cease operations when a thunderstorm rolls in is vital for keeping people safe. Lightning can be life-threatening, but assessing the risk is difficult without access to accurate data and alerts for nearby storms.

Your guide to severe weather API endpoints

Explore severe weather API endpoints your application can use to stay on top of threatening conditions. This helpful guide breaks down each endpoint and includes links to the API documentation.

Annual lightning report

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.

What will 2025 reveal?

Our 2025 report will uncover the year's most compelling data, surprising trends, and unique industry insights. Enter your details, and we'll let you know when the 2025 report is available.

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Prepare for lightning season with Xweather Protect

Storms are more frequent and intense in the summer. See how you can protect your personnel and minimize 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

Take the guesswork out of post-storm inspections

See how Xweather Protect helps wind farm operators generate lightning incident reports, identify turbines that have been struck, and prioritize post-storm inspections in this recorded demo.

Why post-storm reporting is critical for wind farm operators
How to see which turbines were struck and when
How to cut inspection costs with data-driven prioritization

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

Xweather solutions

Don't leave lightning to chance

We detect the precise time, location, and characteristics of over 2 billion lightning events every year. With our powerful software and API endpoints, managing lightning risk has never been easier.

Xweather Protect

Take control of your severe weather risks with Xweather Protect. Improve operational safety and continuity with real-time lightning detection and severe weather alerts for all your locations worldwide.

Lightning API

Access the world's most accurate lightning data wherever and whenever you need it. Enhance your applications with historical lightning data, real-time strike detection, and lightning threat forecasts.

Your questions answered

Whatever your severe weather needs, we're here to help. Get in touch today, and let us put our expertise to work for you.