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CWS Lightning Detector
CWS has it's own Boltek Stormtracker Lightning Detector.
StormTracker works by detecting the radio signals produced by lightning. These are the same signals you can hear on an AM radio during a thunderstorm. StormTracker's direction-finding antenna provides direction information while storm distance is calculated from received signal strength. Special processing in software reduces the effects of strike-to-strike energy variations providing more accurate distance information.
UK Lightning Strike Plot
UK Lightning Density Plot
Blitzortung.org
Blitzortung.org is a network for lightning data over Central Europe. It is a pure non-commercial project free for everybody. People who want to participate need a lightning detector with directional determination of lightnings and a personal computer permanently connected to the Internet. The stations send their lightning data to our server in short time intervals. The collected data will then be used to compute the exact locations of lightnings by a bearing.
All computed coordinates of the lightnings are accessible from our server for everybody and can be used for any non-commercial further processing. This allows you, for example, to develop own applications for displaying lightning data over Central Europe on the Internet. In contrast to other lightning networks, the data we present is real time and for free.
CAM - Current Skyscape View
This snapshot from the Skyscape Cam is taken looking North West and gives a good indication of the current weather conditions.
Uploaded every 5 minutes.
MOVIE - Today's Time-Lapse
The time-lapse movie is built every 6 hours starting at 6am using ImageSalsa.
Each frame represents a snapshot taken from the SkyScape Cam at 10 second intervals.
MOVIE - Yesterday's Time-Lapse
The time-lapse movie is built at the end of the day using ImageSalsa.
Skyscape Cam: Information
The CWS Skyscape Cam
We have a DogCam HQ1 bullet camera connected to the Weather PC and by using ImageSalsa Weather Edition, we are able to produce the images and movies you see here.
Current View
The current view is generated every 5 minutes and overlayed with data from Weather Display. This image is then uploaded to the site.
Movies
ImageSalsa saves the Weather Display overlayed images every 10 seconds from 80 minutes before Sunrise to 80 minutes after Sunset into a timestamped jpeg.
We then use MovieSalsa and it's Scheduler to generate a movie from these images every few hours and then uploaded to the site. This movie can be viewed as "Today".
We then do a final movie as the end of the day which can be viewed as "Yesterday". This is normally generated at 11pm.
We then copy and zip all the day's image files with the aim to produce seasonal videos in the future.
Last Motion detected (Coming soon)
ImageSalsa is able to detect motion by comparing the current and previous frames and if there is a difference within the threshold, a motion is considered to have happened. The frame is then overlayed with the date and time of the motion and stored.
This image is then uploaded to the site.
Periodically, we copy the better ones to the gallery.
Expect to see: The Window Cleaner, Birds, Wasps, Flies and the most important one: Lightning!
As the Cam is interlaced, the motion detection is not very good!
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