Hello,
My name is Krzysztof Maluha, and I run a small, non-commercial weather website as a voluntary and charitable project.
The website is created purely for public benefit and educational purposes — it is free to use, contains no paid access, and does not generate any profit. Its goal is to help people better understand weather conditions, especially severe weather and thunderstorms.
I am currently working on a storm and precipitation map, and I am looking for a reliable way to visualize real lightning activity. Unfortunately, I do not have the technical possibility to build and operate my own Blitzortung detector, and there are no other free and trustworthy sources of live lightning data available.
Therefore, I would like to kindly ask whether it would be possible to grant limited access to lightning data for this non-profit project, or to advise me on any acceptable way to use Blitzortung data in a public, educational context.
If helpful, the website is available here:
pogodynka eu
I fully respect Blitzortung’s rules and understand that data access is restricted. Any guidance or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much for your time and for the incredible work you are doing.
Kind regards,
Krzysztof Maluha
I’m considering installing a new Blitzortung station in regional South Australia, a fair distance from the nearest currently active site. Before moving ahead, I’d like to ask whether there are specific spacing, terrain, or interference considerations I should be especially aware of to ensure the station meaningfully improves local detection quality rather than overlapping existing coverage.
I connected the 3224 receiver online a few days ago and everything was working perfectly until yesterday when it started having GPS problems.
I've tried configuring several speeds on the serial port and it's not working. My receiver is a Blue Basic PCB 22.x. Can anyone tell me what I can do? I'm thinking of buying another GPS antenna in case it's faulty, but I doubt it.
Hello everyone,
I will buy a functional GPS device for the Green system or exchange the Red system 3233 for a functional Green system. Thank you in advance for the offer.
Regards
I am eager to explore setting up a new station in South Australia, near Port Augusta. My proposed location is approximately 30 kilometers from a station that is inactive and has been for some time from what I can tell, and would help to improve the accuracy in my area as it is a purplish red at present.
It would seem the website has a major overhaul. I can no longer connect to the web socket. I used to parse out the web socket key from the js file. \ Does anyone have any information to share on the subject?
My name is Krzysztof. I am a software developer and a student at the Silesian University of Technology. For several years, I have been developing a system for detecting lightning strikes in long video recordings, as a tool to facilitate the work of storm chasers, researchers and software developers. This project has become the subject of my engineering thesis. As part of my master's thesis, which I am currently working on, I am creating a system that involves continuous detection of lightning strikes on video streams from cameras, which will allow for the approximation of the location of a lightning strike.
I wanted to ask if it is possible to obtain raw detection coordinates with timestamps in order to compare these results in my master's thesis.
I saw that on the Blitzortung website, you can only access raw data if you are a contributor, so unfortunately, I do not have access to this data (I was considering joining the project, but there are already detectors in my area, so I don't know if it makes sense). Unfortunately, the historical data I can obtain on LightningMaps is also in the form of a map (without the coordinates and timestamps I need).
Thank you in advance, and I look forward to your response or suggestions on where I could obtain such data.
