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Xweather Protect
Safeguard people and operations before severe weather strikes
- Real-time lightning alerts
- Hail and wind forecasts
- No hardware required
Real-time lightning detection, hail forecasts, and high-wind alerts for operations anywhere, powered by the Xweather Lightning Network.
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Severe weather detection trusted across industries
Xweather Protect monitors lightning, hail, and high winds globally. Alerts activate within seconds of detection, providing the lead time operations teams need to act before conditions escalate.
0 .9%
of thunderstorms detected
0 billion+
lightning events detected annually
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warning for 95% of severe hail events
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of historical lightning data
40% of Fortune 100 rely on Xweather
Automated alerts for lightning, hail, and wind across your sites
Xweather Protect delivers site-specific alerts for each severe weather type, with configurable thresholds and delivery channels for every location.
- Lightning detection
- Hail forecasting
- Wind monitoring
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Post-storm analysis and incident reports
After a storm passes, Xweather Protect provides the data operations and engineering teams need to prioritize inspections, validate decisions, and document events for compliance.
- 7-day storm replay
- Incident reports
- Historical data
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Minimize costly downtime
All-clear notifications confirm when conditions are safe to resume, cutting unnecessary downtime.
Coverage for any location
Cloud-based monitoring with global coverage and no on-site hardware or installation required.
Configurable alert levels
Set information, warning, and alarm thresholds per site and assign recipients.
No capital expenditure needed
No sensors, stations, or infrastructure to purchase, install, or maintain at your sites.
Severe weather intelligence for critical operations
Xweather Protect serves operations and safety teams across industries where weather disruptions create safety risk, downtime costs, or asset damage.
Aviation
Aviation ground operations
Xweather Protect delivers real-time lightning alerts and all-clear notifications that help ramp controllers, ground crews, and operations managers minimize the time between a weather hold and safe resumption.
Alerts arrive within seconds of detection, and configurable thresholds reduce unnecessary holds from distant storm activity.
7 lightning safety strategies to minimize downtime
Solar
Solar asset protection
Xweather Protect provides up to 60 minutes of hail forecast lead time, giving operations teams a window to stow tracker-mounted panels before impact.
For large-scale solar farms, even a few minutes of additional warning can mean the difference between full stow completion and significant panel damage.
Hail forecasting accuracy put to the test
Grid resilience
Transmission and distribution
The primary grid use case is post-storm fault correlation: matching transmission line faults with lightning strike data to identify where damage is most likely and prioritize patrols.
Xweather Protect's incident reports map strikes along transmission corridors with enough precision to guide inspection crews directly to the highest-risk spans, accelerating outage restoration.
Correlating transmission line faults with lightning strikes
Wind
Wind energy operations
Post-storm lightning incident reports provide strike locations with error ellipses, damage potential ratings, and polarity data, enabling maintenance teams to prioritize inspections on the turbines most likely affected rather than surveying an entire fleet.
Take the guesswork out of post-storm inspections
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How it works
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Define
Add your assets and define alert zones using point, multipoint, polygon, or polyline geometries. Cover a single facility or an entire operational network.
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Set
Configure alert thresholds at multiple levels: Information, Warning, and Alarm. Set independent clear times for each level.
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Notify
Assign contact lists for each alert. Route alerts through email and SMS or trigger sirens, flashing lights, and display screens directly.
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Monitor
Track active alerts and monitor approaching storms in the Xweather Protect dashboard. Send automated all-clear notifications when the danger has passed.
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See it in action
See how to safeguard your people and operations with automated alerts, storm monitoring, and reporting.
Alerts and reports
Xweather Protect supports multiple alert types and a complete post-storm analysis toolkit. Each capability is configurable per site.
Real-time lightning alerts
Alerts activate within seconds when the network detects lightning near your asset. Configure Information, Warning, and Alarm levels with specific alert distances, clear times, and contact lists for each.
InformationWarningAlarmAll-clear
Forecast alerts
Receive site-specific wind and gust alerts up to 72 hours in advance. Xweather forecasts lightning and hail risk up to 60 minutes ahead, giving operations teams the lead time to enact safety protocols.
LightningHailWindGusts
Notifications
Route alerts to the right people at the right time. Trigger sirens, lights, screens, and automations with web relays and a secure alerting API.
EmailSMSWeb relayAPI
Severe weather monitoring
Improve awareness and risk assessment with the live weather map view. Select and configure severe weather, air quality, and road weather layers. Review recent events with the animated timeline.
Map layersTimelineForecast summary
Reporting
After the storm passes, create lightning incident reports to prioritize inspections and maintenance. Export a 30-day alert history to validate operational decisions against safety protocols.
Lightning forensicsStorm replayAlert history
Assets and locations
Define assets using point, multipoint, polygon, or polyline geometries. Create up to 4 alert zones per asset, each with a unique alert distance, clear time, and notification list.
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Lightning data from 2016 to present
Access historical lightning data from 2016 to present for your assets and areas of interest.
Report on lightning events within 1 to 100 km of any asset.
Filter by cloud-to-ground events, positive CG, or specific kA ranges.
Reports cover up to 31 days with millisecond precision, in CSV, JSON, and GeoJSON formats.
The Xweather Lightning Network
Xweather Protect is powered by the Xweather Lightning Network: a global detection infrastructure owned and operated by Vaisala. No other severe weather alerting provider operates its own lightning detection network at this scale.
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of thunderstorms detected worldwide
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median accuracy with precision network
0 billion+
lightning events detected yearly
0 .99%
network uptime
See it in action
See how to safeguard your people and operations with automated alerts, storm monitoring, and reporting in this 8-minute recorded demo.
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Book a personal demo
See how Protect monitors severe weather for your specific sites and operations. Our team will walk through setup, alert configuration, and reporting.
- Xweather data trusted by NASA, FAA, and NWS
- 99.99% platform availability
- Scales to any number of sites
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Frequently asked questions
The Xweather Lightning Network detects a lightning event and triggers alerts within seconds. Notifications reach configured channels in real time: email and SMS arrive within seconds, and connected on-site hardware (sirens, lights, screens) activates through the Xweather Protect API. Users can choose whether to alert on cloud-to-ground events only or on all lightning types (the default recommendation is all types). There is no batching or delay in the detection-to-alert pipeline.