Lightning Detection and Thunderstorm Warnings – worldwide

Highest possible precision, speed and reliability in lightning detection and lightning data – this is what nowcast stands for. Why should you settle for less when nowcast can meet your requirements at a sensible price?

Opt for the best-in-class 3D-real-time technology and take advantage of the highest possible quality ranging from real-time data to historical data:

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LINET – Our Lightning Detection Solution

nowcast’s data products are based on its in-house developed ultra-precise lightning detection system LINET – data quality and location accuracy guaranteed. Read more about how LINET works

Our Lightning Locationing Products

Industry Solutions

Lightning Detection for Weather Service Providers

Use our ultra-precise lightning data as national or private weather service. We guarantee excellent accuracy, quality, availability and easy interface management.

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Lightning Detection in the Aviation Industry

Lighting data plays a vital role for air traffic control organizations. As airport operator, high-quality nowcast data enables you to reduce airport downtime significantly as well as perfectly schedule ground handling stops.

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Lightning Detection for Insurers

Our historical nowcast lightning data base enables Insurers to reliably verify whether the cause for damage/claim really was a lightning strike or overvoltage. This will improve efficiency in both areas, claims processing and costs for you.

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Lightning Detection for Energy Suppliers

We meet your demand for lightning data as energy supplier such as e.g. monitor high voltage power lines or verify claims at the highest possible quality.

Lightning Data for the Wind Energy Sector

Highly precise lightning data offers an efficient and effective basis for decision-making: Timely blade inspection, historical lightning analysis, damage clarification are among the common use-cases for wind parks and wind turbine manufacturers. Nowcast has the right tools and data for you on hand.

Lightning Detection in Scientific Institutions

As a university research spin-off, nowcast considers itself a scientific company. We maintain various cooperations with renown international research institutions.

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Lightning Detection in the Telecommunication Industry

Telecommunication and similar infrastructure providers use nowcast’s high-precision lightning data to increase safety for outdoor workers and to correlate failures to lightning. Thus, safety is significantly improved and efficiency and respective costs can be dramatically reduced.

Lightning Detection in Other Industries

As nowcast customer you recognize an approaching storm and take the necessary measures. After a storm possible lightning induced damage can be reliably identified.

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Ligthning Detection for Weather Service Providers

Use our ultra-precise lightning data as national or private weather service. We guarantee excellent accuracy, quality, availability and easy interface management.

Aviation

As air traffic control organization, lighting data plays a vital role for you. As airport operator, high-quality nowcast data enables you to reduce airport downtime significantly as well as perfectly schedule ground handling stops.

Insurers

With our historical nowcast lightning data base, we offer you as an insurer, the opportunity to reliably verify whether the cause for damage/claim really was a lightning strike or overvoltage.

Energy Suppliers

We meet your demand for lightning data as energy supplier such as e.g. monitor high voltage power lines or verify claims at the highest possible quality.

Lightning Data for the Wind Energy Sector

Highly precise lightning data offers an efficient and effective basis for decision-making: Timely blade inspection, historical lightning analysis, damage clarification are among the common use-cases for wind parks and wind turbine manufacturers. Nowcast has the right tools and data for you on hand.

Scientific Institutions

As a university research spin-off, nowcast considers itself a scientific company and maintains various cooperations with renown international research institutions.

Telecommunication

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Other Industries

As nowcast customer you recognise an approaching storm and take the necessary measures. After a storm possible lightning induced damage can be reliably identified.

The unique LINET design

  • Developed and made in Germany

  • Best value for money

  • Highest precision and highest resolution

  • Realtime tracking and nowcasting

  • Detecting even very weak signals

  • 3D-measurement of emission height of intra-cloud lightning strokes

The unique LINET design

  • Engineered and made in Germany

  • Unsurpassed value for money

  • Highest precision and highest resolution

  • Realtime tracking and nowcasting

  • Detecting even very weak signals

  • 3D-measurement of emission height of intra-cloud lightning strokes

References

High Precision Lightning Detection

Watch the nowcast film

  • Did you ever wonder why lightning data is useful and important?
  • And what it looks like when lightning data is used at an airport?
  • Or why energy suppliers need to know about lightning?

The nowcast film gives insight into the acquisition and daily usage of lightning data in industry and weather sectors.

Lightning Detection Stories

Precise Lightning Data for Electrical Transmission Grid Operators

Gain insight into the use of lightning data at electrical transmission grid operator HOPS, a long-term customer of nowcast.
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Lightning data is great. And hail warnings all the more so!

The car dealer hail-warning-service of AIOI/Toyota Insurance Services Germany.

Germany Lightning Report Summer 2020: Weakest season since start of measurement

Last summer, exactly 2,659,493 lightning discharges were recorded throughout Germany, 732,199 of them with a current intensity of at least 5 kA.

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