Lightning and airports

[justapax]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

From this site - usually have it on if storms forecast...

https://www.lightningmaps.org/

It seems I know more about the weather on the sun than what's happening at the other end of the county. Here's a site with interesting stuff about what the sun's up to: https://spaceweather.com/ (one quotation of a good website deserves another).

[justapax]

Originally Posted by Mr Mac

All done today and I have seen footage and good for another few years yet.

Before I retired, one of my jobs was related to nuclear reactors, concerning the design of which you sit down with the customer and talk about lifetimes that are long beyond either of your life expectancies. 50 years is typical. However, new commercial buildings seem to have much shorter lifetimes. What causes them to fail so soon?

[Asturias56]

I'd say that landlords have realised that once a building is 40 years old the technology has changed so much (computers, cabeling, wireless....) and the working practices of the work force have also changed (remember when every boss had a secretary sitting outside his office? kitchens, air conditioning) that you're faced with large scale refits - which are costly and complicated. Just as easy to write them off over 35 years.

[Mr Mac]

Asturias 56
You forgot to mention the cost word. Most modern structures especially those in UK are built relatively quickly but generally quite cheaply with most internal walls now being SFS and board rather than wet trade. As an observation if the client has a decent budget you get a reasonable building but if not then a lot of value engineering goes on shall we say.

Back to lightning it’s been quite a week in central Europe and I feel I am carrying my own personal storm like some cartoon character. Just checked weather at home in Yorkshire and yes there are Thunderstorms forecast for Saturday afternoon 🙄

However I have just come of a call to a friend in Atlanta who says they are under severe weather warning this weekend across Dixie due to very volatile storm fronts coming in. We had those this week here in Germany and some talk of small tornado as well, but thankfully UK storms around us tend to be just great natural Firework displays however it will bugger up my planned fishing on Saturday pm 🤨

Cheers
Mr Mac

[aloominumtoob]

"Lightening" is to make something lighter.
Lightning is a weather phenomonen.
Hope this enlightens.

[MAC 40612]

Originally Posted by Justapax1

I didn't realise it was possible to pinpoint lightning that closely. Where did you get that map from?

This is a good site for live lightning storms: https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php

[tdracer]

Lightning with 10 miles seems to be the typical rule around here (or, for less sophisticated locals, 'visible lightning'. Never heard of 30 miles, but perhaps it's something like an insurance requirement.

[Mr Mac]

tdracer
Just realised I typed 30 miles on here, and as the job was in Europe it’s 30km not miles ,which equates to 18 miles roughly, sorry for confusion everyone my error Also you are correct it is insurance related.
Cheers
Mr Mac

[TWT]

Originally Posted by aloominumtoob

"Lightening" is to make something lighter.
Lightning is a weather phenomonen.
Hope this enlightens.

Almost....lightning is a weather phenomenon