Hi all
Knowing we would get some thunder activity, today I purchased a 1 month subscription to StrikeStar. I was going to use NowCast but was put off by it only using one detector whereas StrikeStar uses many detectors around the country.
Here is something that is confusing. Check out these images:
These were both taken at the same time. On the NowCast picture, the area of light green is where the most recent lightning activity occured. It is quite accurate as it is more or less exactly where I live and at the time, I saw at least 3 lightning strikes.
On the other hand, strikestar shows the nearest lightning to me in the south, no indication that it is actually near me. Now I know that all lightning detectors can fail when it comes to accuracy, but what I dont understand is how strikestar can have so many lightning detector stations about, yet be less accurate than nowcast, with one. About an hour after the lightning and rain had gone, when it was quite calm with just a few clouds about, it wasn't until then that strikestar had lightning dots all over the area where I live.
Im sorry if this sounds like a rant, Im just a bit confused over the accuracy considering I expected strikestar to be a lot more accurate than Nowcast