EN Highlights: All About Lightning Detection⚡

Here are 3 things you need to know:

🌩️ Estimated time of storm arrival. This highly sought after feature is AVAILABLE NOW in our Sferic Maps software and merges radar with our lightning data to estimate the time of arrival for the 'core' of a storm. Polygons (shown below in red) forecast the time in 15 minute intervals. See it live in our next Sferic Maps Product Webinar.

📢 New and improved outdoor alerting. We're calling it "Sferic Siren" which has nothing to do with the mythological creatures and everything to do with the option to use our NEW custom voice messages and configure the volume of your outdoor alerting system. Read the announcement.

📘 Our latest industry report. In the 2019 State of Parks & Recreation Report we cover issues like safety, budget allocation, and operations. These remain hot topics within the Parks and Recreation space — an industry we support nationwide with our suite of lightning detection and alerting solutions. Download the report.

Featured Webinar

4 Secrets to an Effective Lightning Alert Response

In the latest edition of our monthly Weather Safety Warm-Up series, Lightning Scientist Jeff Lapierre discusses lightning alerting and the factors that influence an effective response to lightning alerting. Learn about the 4 post-alert activities you need to have in place before the alerts go out in order to ensure the appropriate response. Watch now →

Featured Podcast Episode

An Ounce of Business Disaster Preparation is Worth a Pound of Cure

Over the last five years, 40% of businesses have experienced some sort of business interruption, costing on average, even for a small company, upward of $8,000 per hour of downtime. You need to have a plan because it's not a question of whether a disaster will happen or not. It's a question of when.

Scott Teel from Agility Recovery Services chats about this challenge for businesses with your Continuity Forecast host, Steve Prinzivalli. Listen now →

Featured Blog Post

Thunderstorm Drops 16 Inches of Hail in Park County

Folks in the area south-southwest of Denver got a harsh reminder of the dangers of hail when a thunderstorm dropped 16 inches of the white stuff in places on September 3, 2019. As part of this storm our our total lightning network detected 6,294 pulses in a 10-mile radius around Spinney Mountain State Park. View now →

Featured Customer

Dave Urbanski explains how Seymour High School protects student athletes from lightning strikes and other inclement weather.

Dave is an Athletic Director that knows the importance of monitoring the weather to keep his student athletes safe. This can be a challenge without the support of a weather solutions provider like Earth Networks. Using our Total Lightning Network, Dave can keep an eye on storm activity and clear the field when dangerous storms threaten outdoor activities. Better yet? The EN countdown clock lets Dave and his team know when it's safe to go back outside again. Watch this 2-minute video.

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