Lightning detectors

[DHCarrotfeeder]

We don’t have run-ins and therefore don’t leave the horses out during storms. This time of year, storms can appear out of nowhere or distant storms can dissipate by the time they reach us. We usually play it safe and so they don’t get out as often as possible. It’s tiring.

I wonder if a lightning detector will make it safer to leave them out on questionable evenings and set it to wake us up if a storm is approaching? Anyone have this kind of thing?

http://www.ambientweather.com/lidegu.html

[baytraks]

I don’t know much about personal lightning detectors, but I found a great iphone app called LightningCast that alerts me when there is lightning within x miles of my barn. You can set X; I have mine at 30 miles. If there is a lightning strike within 30 miles, it alarms, and I can look at the radar map with the strike location highlighted.

[dexhol]

The weather bug app on Android also has a lightning map that shows strikes on the radar and the miles to the nearest strike within 30 minutes. That iphone app sounds great though, going to have to check for an android equivalent.