Lightning Safety Week


“Every year there are about 20 million cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in the United States,” according to John Jensenius, Lightning Safety Specialist with the National Lightning Safety Council. “Each one of those flashes is a potential killer.” Columbia Weather shares the NLSC goal of reducing the number of people killed and injured by lightning.

Our Pulsar 800 Weather Station with lightning detection is popular in operations and facilities management for utilities like West Chicago Waste Water Treatment Plant, energy companies like Lionrock Energy, chemical companies like Formosa Plastics, and mass transportation such as Bay Area Rapid Transit.

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