Wide Area Storm Probe 2 (WASP-2) from Astrogenic

The above image was produced by Astrogenic WASP2 software using information from StrikeStar US. We report lightning data to StrikeStar US by Astrogenic NexStorm software.

About the lightning detector

The lightning detector is a Boltek StormTracker PCI system. The picture at the left depicts the antenna (black box, above) and the PCI card to analyze the data coming from the antenna. The software to further analyze and plot the data is Astrogenic NexStorm V:PCI.

The system records four types of lightning:

+CG Positive cloud to ground strike.
-CG Negative cloud to ground strike.
+IC Positive in cloud or intracloud strike.
-IC Negative in cloud or intracloud strike.
Noise - electrical signals from other sources than lightning.

Tom at carterlake.org has an excellent writeup on lightning detection.

The lightning data is submitted to StrikeStarUS.com for the USA, and NorthEast maps and summarized for presentation here by WASP2 (V) from Astrogenic.