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KUALA LUMPUR: We have just crossed the year’s lightning month with an average 86,000 strikes recorded in Peninsular Malaysia alone. With the monsoon season and more lightning expected this month, experts renewed their calls for better lightning protection. The Klang Valley receives the third highest number of lightning strikes in the world. Scientists consider it […]

KUALA LUMPUR: Subang which lies in the centre of a lightning dense triangle in the Meteorological Department’s map for lightning density has one of the highest number of lightning incidences in the world. According to the department, Subang experiences lightning a minimum of 240 days a year. This translates to between 25 and 40 lightning […]

MetraWeather and partner, TOA Systems Inc., have successfully completed the first phase of a pan-Oceania lightning location network that will ultimately reach across the Pacific. MetraWeather is a specialist global weather insights company and vendor of weather and lightning location services to the media, transport, industrial, and energy sectors. The company is backed by the […]

MetraWeather returns to IBC 2016 with fresh new contracts signed in Europe, Asia and Australia for its Weatherscape XT Black Edition weather graphics platform, an all-new live weather graphics show for IBCTV, and a host of new features that enable newsrooms to create compelling weather content that engages audiences. Public broadcasters in Australia and Thailand […]

The escalating severity of extreme weather events across South East Asia is creating new challenges for a region often deeply impacted by the elements. Public safety communications and extreme weather forecasting is vital to building the region’s resilience. Local broadcasters are often in the best position to provide the location-specific weather information when and where […]

New Delhi (AFP) – At least 93 people have been struck by lightning and killed in India over the past two days, disaster management officials said Wednesday, as annual monsoon rains swept the country. Lightning strikes are relatively common in India during the June-October monsoon, which hit the southern coast earlier this month, but this […]

Aircraft frequently get struck by lightning but with improved design and technology they are built to weather it. THE weather forecast had warned of rain with thunderstorm that fateful day, the preliminary report on the Sebuyau helicopter crash confirmed last Thursday, and there was indeed heavy rainstorm, lightning and thunder in the Eurocopter AS350’s route. […]

In this second part on lightning safety, Sunday Star looks at the authorities’ role in enforcing and enhancing lightning protection measures to shield people from danger during thunderstorms. “WHEN thunder roars, go indoors.” That is one Americanism that we should adopt. Taking that basic guideline to heart, however, will come to nought if our homes are not […]

Water Vapor Precipitation Himawari IR Global IR   Data Source: NESDIS-Global Hydro Estimate HourlyRainfall (MM) Global Water Vapor 4km (60 min, GEO/LEO) Source: Himawari8 IR Band13 10.4um Clean IR Longwave Window Global Infrared 4km (60 min, GEO/LEO)

Malaysia has the third highest number of lightning strikes in the world, but awareness among Malaysians of the danger is still lacking. IT was hot and sunny when the Melaka United youth team started their training that fateful day on April 5. Before they knew it, however, it had started drizzling. Only when the downpour […]