{"id":645,"date":"2008-04-01T23:52:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T03:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/01\/lightning\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T23:52:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T03:52:22","slug":"lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/01\/lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/geology.com\/news\/2005\/12\/lightning-map_14.html\">cool map of lightning frequency over time<\/a> across the globe. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strikestarus.com\/\">a live version<\/a> for the U.S. Heck, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strikestarus.com\/index.aspx?id=40\">a zoomed-in version<\/a> on the Northeast for the past 60 minutes. It turns out that you can even buy a small <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boltek.com\/stormtracker.html\">Lightning Detector<\/a> to map local lightning strikes on your PC. It listens for the signature static crashes from lightning, sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/weirdwords\/ww-sfe1.htm\">called sferics<\/a> (short for atmo<em>spheric<\/em> noise), much like you can <a href=\"http:\/\/wvlightning.com\/sferics.shtml\">hear on an AM radio<\/a> during a storm. You can even listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/glossary\/inspire.html\">streaming audio from NASA<\/a>&#8216;s (Alabama) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Very_low_frequency\">VLF<\/a> receiver.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cool map of lightning frequency over time across the globe. And a live version for the U.S. Heck, a zoomed-in version on the Northeast for the past 60 minutes. It turns out that you can even buy a small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/01\/lightning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-links","category-interesting","category-materialism","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}