The weather. We all talk about it. We all complain about it. And we all obsess over it. Let’s be honest: we all check weather forecasts, and we check them pretty often. But here’s the problem: a weather forecast usually is only as precise as your city or town. That’s not too helpful when you’re…
MetraWeather Sherlock™ is a new Small Data analysis and personal weather service that uses behavioural clues, direct user input and observations from smart devices to provide more useful and relevant information than traditional weather apps. Sherlock is based on the belief that people have unique relationships with their weather. The service interacts with users to…
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…
Data Source: NESDIS-Global Hydro Estimate HourlyRainfall (MM) Global Water Vapor 4km (60 min, GEO/LEO) Test
Source: Himawari8 IR Band13 10.4um Clean IR Longwave Window Global Infrared 4km (60 min, GEO/LEO)
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)…
