Euro Lightning Monitor

by Mark

Displays (almost) real time lightning maps for most of western Europe. You can select between Strike points, Strike Density, and Storm tracking maps for the following countries:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.

Please note that the web site does not provide animations, the Widget has to build them a frame at a time at your selected refresh rate.

The Widget can be configured to alert you if there a number More
Current Version: 2.6

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  1. Philipgoddard01
    August 01, 2008 · version 2.5

    Very nice piece of work!

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    Very nice - I'll recommend this to others!

    One little practical niggle - the menu for the 4 different types of data display tends to auto-disappear before I've managed to click on the one I want. I would prefer to have a mini-tab or icon to click to toggle the menu on/off.

    One other thing I would like there to be, because I couldn't find an explanation on the Blitzortung site, is an indication somewhere of the meaning of the tiny coloured squares on the maps. I've figured tha More

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  2. Mark
    January 07, 2008 · version 2.5

    Widget updated

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    Ver 2.6 of the widget fixed the problem with alerting (the blitzordnung website had turned off the feed the widget used). My Vista Gadget port uses scrollable/scalable maps - I will backport this functionality to the widget in a future release.

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  3. December 09, 2007 · version 2.5

    Tenerife

    Looks great. any chance of including Tenerife (Canary Islands) in the map ?

    Thanks

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    Thanks for rating!
  4. Georgev
    December 01, 2007 · version 2.5 Georgev
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    Really useful widget. Blitzordnung is a good alternative to keep track of thunderstorms especially if the Siemens Blids system isn't working. Great work!

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  5. Alan
    November 19, 2007 · version 2.5

    GOOD WIDGET!FEW PROBS THOUGH!

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    THIS IS AN EXCELLENT WIDGET BUT CANT GET THE VOICE WARNING TO WORK AT ALL.??
    USED LVIEW WHICH IS AVAILABLE FROM BLITZ'S WEBSITE AND IT CHIRPS EVERY TIME BUT CANT GET THE STEVEN HAWKINS IMPRESSIONIST TO MUTTER A WORD?
    GREAT FOR FISHERMEN WHO WANNA KNOW WHEN ITS COMING SO THEY CAN GRAB THERE RODS!!!
    TUNE IT UP PLEEEEEEESE!?
    ALSO HOW AND WHAT EQUIPMENT DO YOU NEED TO BE A STATION???

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