Lightning

Lightning is one of the most dangerous and frequently encountered weather hazards in Australia. There are deaths and over 100 severe injuries caused by lightning in Australia year-on-year. Lightning can severely harm or take the lives of workers and has the potential to disrupt operations through damage to communications and plant infrastructure, fire and ignition […]

The INFORM Global Risk Index for 2018 attributed one of Asia’s highest rankings to the Philippines. The Index is a way to understand and measure the risk of humanitarian crises and disasters, and how the conditions that lead to them affect sustainable development. The ranking of 5.2 is due, in part, to the Philippines significant […]

KUCHING: A 26-year-old man was killed when he was struck by lightning at a construction site in Jalan Tun Abdul Rahman Yaakub here today. The construction worker, identified as Nansion Raby Tagik, died on the spot in the 2.30pm incident. District police chief Assistant Commissioner Abang Ahmad Abang Julaihi said Nasion and his colleagues, including […]

MetraWeather and TOA Systems, Inc., (TOA) the global lightning network company, will announce the expansion of a pan-ASEAN lightning network at InterMET Asia 2016. The network is designed to improve the region’s resilience to escalating extreme weather events and mitigate the risks associated with devastating lightning strikes. The network will be expanded in Brunei, Cambodia, […]

An analysis of the effectiveness of the DDCE device was performed in the context of direct lightning strikes on a telecommunications tower belonging to ANDORRA TELECOM, located in the area of ​​LAS PARDINAS in the Western Pyrenees, France at an altitude of 2,300 metres.  The Tower is located in an area with a high incidence […]

Anatomy of a Lightning Strike. Meteorologist Jim Cantore heads to the lab to show why a storm produces lightning. Source: Weather.com. 17 July 2015 Related Post Saving lives and improving thunderstorm forecasting in Malaysia SB Safety Network Foundation launches Philippine-wide lightning detection network TOA Systems And MetraWeather Asia Expand Pan-ASEAN Lightning Network TOA’s Australian lightning network […]

Chikyu, the largest research vessel in the world, belongs to the Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). It is 210 meters long with 120 meters high freeboard, displacing 57,087 tonnes, housing a crew of 100 and a team of 50 scientists. Its mission is to analysis the mechanisms which lead to earthquakes and […]

Southeast Asia is well known for its annual monsoon season, which in addition to heavy rains, brings huge electrical storms, causing serious incidents and material losses, as was the case of the lightning which struck this bronze statue, an important tourists attraction. Fortunately, one of the 1 metre diameter rosettes falling off caused no injuries. […]

This image shows the global average annual occurrence of lightning at a resolution of ½° by ½°. (Very large 300 dpi version – 1440k) The data was obtained from the following two space-based sensors: The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), is used to detect the distribution and variability of total lightning (cloud-to-cloud, intracloud, and cloud-to-ground lightning) […]

KOTA KINABALU: A school gardener was killed and his colleague seriously hurt after they were struck by lightning at the SMK Datuk Peter Mojuntin field in Penampang near here on Tuesday. Fazlie Lai Fauzie, 36, was believed to have been killed on the spot during the 3.30pm incident while fellow gardener Maidah Banir, 46, remained […]