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Show HN: Animated visualisations of global lightning strike location data (spatialawareness.io)
2 points by robhawkes on Aug 3, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Hello!

The past few weeks a friend and I have been working on a series of animated spatial visualisations using global lightning strike location data.

You can see and read more about them here: https://spatialawareness.io/blog/thunderbolts-and-lightning/

We poured a load of hours in these, and overall it's been a really interesting exercise to see how we approach the same dataset differently.

Craig's visualisation is a beautiful global view of lightning data over a few weeks.

My visualisation shows air traffic actively avoiding stormy weather and lightning over Dallas Fort Worth in 2019.

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Flight data: OpenSky Network

Lightning data: World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN)




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