• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Results of lightning damage study

Esa Tuunanen

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Here in Finland we had a study whose purpose was to connect data of bolts from lightning detection network to damage on target and analyse results.
Of course this summer had to be one of the worst thunderstorm summers for decades so chances for getting lot of data were kinda "watered" by generally cold and rainy weather so data was limited to two dozen hits. But compared to number of cases studied before this that's big increase.

Results should appear in international lightning science journal during winter but here's presentation of them made for seminar in Sweden.
http://www.ekarvinen.net/salamapuu 2007/Seminar-for-Uppsala.pdf
There's two really nice photos of tree getting "electroshock therapy" if text doesn't interest. :D
(getting bolt into 1/250s exposure... that could be called as lucky shot)



As sidenote conscripts practising on field were targeted by lightning three times on this summer while I don't remember how long it has been from single previous case. :rolleyes:
 
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