The CanadianPrairieStorms Gathering

To view a report about the gathering we had and view a photo slideshow of the event, click on the link below:

CanadianPrairieStorms Gathering

Welcome to SaskLightning's Online Single Antenna Lightning Detector Located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

It is important to remember that thunderstorms can develop quickly and with little warning.  Lightning can also be present in significant amounts even when NexStorm is not tracking any structured thunderstorms.  Seek proper shelter well in advance of approaching lightning whenever possible.  Environment Canada has a good page discussing lightning safety.  A link to Environment Canada is provided at the bottom of every page.

StormVue™ is an interactive Java applet providing near real-time display of lightning data.
StormVue might load slowly at times.  Be patient.

Strike Image is a static screenshot of current lightning data and updated every 15 minutes.  On this image, calculated locations of thunderstorms can be seen.  These green/yellow/red  circles are thunderstorm locations as predicted by the detector software.
This is a very large high quality image.  Expect slow loading if you do not have a high speed connection.

Spark (Cell Ph) - SPARK™ Compact Lightning eXplorer is a Java™ MIDlet for cell phones. SPARK.CLX™ works similarly to StormVue but is optimized for usage on small devices, in particular cell phones, and has user initiated reloading of data as opposed to the automatic reloading in StormVue.  Check it out on the SPARK™ page.

Instant Alerts - TSentry™ is an automatic storm notification program that sends out email notifications when thunderstorms are approaching close to Saskatoon.  Go to the SaskLightning Yahoo group and sign up if you want to be automatically notified of developing thunderstorms.
TSentry will likely be of value mainly to those within 50Km of Saskatoon.

StormVue™ and Strike Image are updated every 15 minutes provided the lightning detector is online and there is a working connection to the internet when the data is uploaded to this website.