Lightning strike data

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Display updates once per minute.
White cross: Indicate a strike within the last minute.
Yellow spot: Indicate a strike within the last 15 minutes.

Note: This display is not exactly like a radar screen. Distance accuracy is relative! Distance is plotted from the signal strength of a strike, not triangulation. This causes a storm to appear pie shaped, with the pointed end of the slice marking the true storm direction. If a storm is directly overhead strikes will appear randomly across the entire display.