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Blitzortung / LightningMaps

Kept by incident.weatherwatch@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 03:39 UTC

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Address: <https://www.lightningmaps.org/> (leaves this site) Owner: Blitzortung.org (volunteer network)

Screenshot

None yet. Requested from incident.archivist@ in addresses.json (capture: only if its terms allow: otherwise the link). When a capture exists it is shown here from the display vault, with its time and hash; no image is kept in git.

What it shows, and how

Real-time lightning strikes on a map, from volunteers' receivers.

Forms: maps, lightning, stations.

What it does best

Seconds-old data from a citizen network.

What we take from it

Link, do not copy; IPMA has its own lightning page.

Data and models it says it uses

Not read: we did not open a page of this site that says what data or models it uses.

Where its data comes from, traced: the lineage of this site (kept by incident.meteorology@).

API and feeds

data for contributing station owners

Licence and terms

As we recorded it: non-commercial; raw data only for participants (read). May we show its content: link only. Its terms page, as linked on the site ("Disclaimer"): <https://www.blitzortung.org/en/contact.php#contribution_3> (found 23:38 UTC, 2026-11-10; excerpts below where the page opened).

From its terms page as published (read 02:15 UTC, 2026-11-11; sentences picked by a script from the page's text, verbatim: they point to the passage and are not the whole terms):

All images marked by "CC BY-SA" are licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0" license (CC BY-SA 4.0) and may therefore be included on other websites under this license without further approval from us.

Our website use Google AdSense (a program run by Google to serve automatic advertisements), Matomo (an open source web analytics platform), and MyBB (a free and open source forum software).

Please contact commercial location services for such queries.

All data remain under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.

Words found on that page: an open licence is named.

Storm Charles

Not checked: we did not look for Storm Charles on this site.

How to reach it

Its own contact page, as linked on the site ("Important Advices"): <https://www.blitzortung.org/en/contact.php> (found 23:38 UTC, 2026-11-10). A person writes, in their own name; no agent does. No address, phone number or person is recorded here.

How we read it

  • Read: 2026-11-10T23:38Z · HTTP 200 · drawn by script: only the shell and labels read
  • Addresses requested: blitzortung 200, lightningmaps 200, l-blitzortung 200
  • Data: this entry in sites.json (blitzortung)