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A lightning hits a man in Madrid

A storm front is crossing the country and it is leaving the first spring electrical storms. During yesterday, more than 14,300 lightnings strike on the peninsula , adding cloud to cloud lightnings and cloud to ground lightnings. The storms affected the center and east of Spain.

In the Madrid area, a 43-year-old man was injured seriously due to being struck by lightning when he was talking on the phone under a tree in a city park.

The INGESCO Lightning Location System reflected the evolution of the lightnings in real-time.

You can see in the picture attached the lightnings fell on the Madrid area at the time the incident occurred.

One of the applications of the INGESCO detection and alarm system is the LIGHTNING LOCATION AREA. This system offers to the citizens updated information about the storm risk in their town.

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New lightning rod tests according 21.186:2011 and NFC 17102 standards

INGESCO lightning rods have updated test certificates according to the new UNE 21.186:2011 and NFC.17102:2011.

Labelec, high voltage electrical laboratory accredited by ENAC, has conducted such tests certifying compliance.

ENAC acreditation and scope.

Lightning stroke in the Vatican

The same evening that Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will leave the Pontificate, lightning strock in the Basilica of St. Peter's Basilica (video http://www.20minutos.tv/video/eiprBJPR-cae-un-rayo-sobre -the-Vatican / 0 /).

With our network we detected the lightning stroke. Lightning is detected up to yesterday 17:54:42 local time February 11, 2013. It is a remarkable fact that the detected current position is 69 kA, a great intensity for being this type of uplink strokes.

It is also curious that the storm passes by Rome and the only lightning that hits is in the Basilica of San Pedro. Following are the corresponding maps.

Storm last October 21st. Viewing the PREVISTORM.NET-SLR

This past weekend, 20 and 21 October, throughout northeastern peninsular lived an episode of rainfall caused by an east wind process which led to severe storms with lots of water and plenty of electrical appliance. Only on 21 fell, in Catalonia, about 7000 lightning strokes within hours.

The lightning location system at all times reflected the evolution of the real-time lightning strokes, as we can see in the attached image corresponding to lightning strokes in Catalonia on 21 October.

Storm last October 14th. Viewing the PREVISTORM.NET-SLR

We started the fall and appear as the first storms typical of this season. This long weekend we had thunderstorm activity in Spain, the october 11th in Catalonia lightning were recorded both in the central and southern littoral front of the central coast, the other days were recorded in Spain many lightning impacts.

The lightning location system at all times reflected the evolution of the real-time lightning, as we can see in the images attached to the lightning corresponding fallen in Catalunya on October 11 and lightning in Spain on the 14th October.

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