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To complement the Annual Lightning Report, here are some of the big lightning stories you may have missed last year.

On February 21, an Alaska Airlines flight from Juneau, Alaska, to Sitka, Alaska was struck by lightning as it descended into Sitka.

Vaisala's attention was captured when La Soufrière, a volcano on Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles, began a series of explosive eruptions on the morning of April 9, 2021.

Topography with high mountains and steep inclinations – albeit are beautiful landscapes – but can add complexity when dealing with wind measurements like direction and speed.

Technologies like Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) make our lives more convenient and productive, but did you know they can also interfere with weather observations?

Vaisala shares some of the insights their data has provided. You can find out more about lightning around the globe by visiting their fascinating new global total lightning density map. Never before has it been possible to reliably compare lightning on a national basis everywhere.

In recent years, national meteorological institutes have expressed more interest in using the descent phase of operational radiosonde soundings.

In the autumn of 2020, Unu Mondo Expedition delivered and installed three units of Vaisala Automatic Weather Stations to measure wind and air temperature in Greenland.

Vaisala & the Finnish Meteorological Institute: space-based technology

Automated meteorological observation process – benefits for the societal output of meteorological organizations

Digital transformation of flood warnings. Making critical information available at the right time to the right people in the right way

Integrating stakeholder knowledge domains to improve urban flood resilience

Development of a riverflow forecasting system with minimum requirements

This GWEF webinar explored the issues surrounding open data in the context of weather and climate data and services.

Urban Flooding and Threats to Sustainable Development: A Study of Srinagar and Chennai Floods.

A unique integrated solution to support wind shear detection for aviation in all types of weather conditions

Options for urban flood resilience within Indian cities: Findings from the high level national stakeholder consultation

Business of Weather talks to Dimitar Ivanov, the Director of Public-Private Engagement at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)

Climate research scenarios

Lightning detection for critical urban infrastructure and leisure facilities

Delivering Impact and Value - Transforming Hydro Meteorological Services for the Public

Forecast-based Financing is a highly innovative way of applying weather forecasts. The aim is to enhance humanitarian action to protect lives and livelihoods by making resources available to act before a disaster actually occurs.

Experience of global small sensor co-location comparison studies and applications

Risk sensitive land use and infrastructure planning

Changing the game of flood fighting

The Royal Society has published a themed issue of its Philosophical Transactions journal addressing “Air Quality, past, present and future”.

Continuous temperature and humidity profiles from lidar. A powerful tool towards robust weather forecasting

How Ground Based Doppler Lidar improves Weather Observations and Forecasts

Next generation real-time hydrologic monitoring standard for increased reliability and accuracy of flood warning data

The importance of good communications in the Global Weather Enterprise

Acclimatise's Amanda Rycerz presents the Inter-American Development Bank’s flagship publication “Development in the Americas”

Planning for flooding within a city water resilience framework.

Application of smart weather and climate services to increase safety and efficiency of port operations

Lessons Learned from an NWS Director

Multi-hazard Early Warning System initiatives in Indonesia.

In this episode of the WeatherPod, co-presenters Alan Thorpe and David Rogers talk to hugely experienced broadcast meteorologist, Gerald Fleming

InterMET Asia 2019 panel discussion: Public sector - Commercial Services?

Green revetment solutions for riverbank erosion protection

A tale of two revolutionary changes: Urbanization and advances in high-resolution hydro-meteorological forecasts

The Kosi Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System

Business of Weather speaks to the co-founder of Shipped by Sail, a novel shipping broker using sailing ships to transport cargo

Collaborative digital workflows for integrated flood management

Business of Weather talks to Dr. Jan Dutton, serial weather business entrepreneur and CEO of Prescient Weather Ltd., about setting up a weather-based business startup

Explores the “vitals” for successful public and private engagement. These include open data policies enabling private sector participation with a clear division of roles and responsibilities between sectors, as well as non-restrictive country legislation and legal frameworks.

Recent Advances in Air Quality Modelling in Australia

Business of Weather investigates a new tool which could significantly increase the accuracy of tornado forecasting

Air pollution, public health and changing weather

Business of Weather talks to Louise van Schaik who heads up the Planetary Security Initiative which was launched in 2015 by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs to research new approaches to reducing climate-related risks to conflict and stability

Effective early warning systems for building resilience to flood hazard: Challenges and opportunities

Business of Weather spoke to Mary Glackin about the challenges that lay ahead for U.S. meteorologists.

River Flood Assessment Based On Ethno-Geography Perspective on the People at Musi River South Sumatra Province, Indonesia

Business of Weather talks to World Energy & Meteorology Council about the importance of weather data to increasing the use of renewable energy and in enhancing energy efficiency

A series of podcasts by Earth Networks dedicated to helping today’s top executives mitigate threats that can threaten their operations

Investing in resilience – the economic and humanitarian case

Urban haze and photovoltaics

Communication with the individual supporters for operational weather forecasting

Information Ecosystem Mapping: Designing Inclusive Weather Forecasting Services for Cities

In 2020, the global energy industry depends on high-quality weather forecasts for critical decision making like never before.

Operational irradiance forecasting for advanced PV grid integration in Singapore

High precision lightning data – Business impact

Prediction of summer rainfall over the source region of the Blue Nile

IMPACT investing to balance financial return and social good by solving weather related issues for NGOs, foundations, non-profits, governments and philanthropies

Evacuate if you are told to

For insurers and reinsurers, it is a real focus to understand and evaluate extreme weather and climate risks now and into the future by using advanced risk modelling

Explosive volcanic eruptions produce ash that endangers aviation and infrastructure

Gap-filling stations and their role within a Road Weather Information System

WMO 68th Executive Council - a speaker's personal view

This Technical Note is aimed primarily at professionals in National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), who are trying to improve the quality and relevance of their services to match their societies’ growing needs for meteorological and hydrological information.

A discussion on the operation of a national meteorological service as a commercial enterprise.

Environmental Intelligence platform for odour and air quality management of smart cities

A value chain of activities of the public, private and academic sectors providing accurate, reliable and timely weather and climate related information

Planning for urban flood resilience through blue, green and grey glasses

Water and cities; coping with floods, droughts and pollution

EEC Technology for Hydrometeorological Applications: Weather Radar and QPE

Benefits of Lightning Information as a service

Asian Megacities presentation: Towards an Operational Urban Flood Forecasting System

A view from the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), which is Austria’s national meteorological & hydrological service.

WMO Open Consultative Platform (OCP) Innovation Seminar - 3 July 2020

Balancing resolution and latency

A Vision for Numerical Weather Prediction in 2030: the inaugural GWE Forum presentation 30 June 2020

The impact of of flooding on mosquito surveillance and control

Episode 1 - Sky and Cloud Observation with Ceilometers

Working in partnership to drive global awareness of hazardous and impactful weather.

Advanced Automated MET System

‘Blue labelling’ to highlight weather related flood risks

Investing and trading in the weather derivatives market - Real life examples of using the weather market for benefit

A full life-cycle IT approach for flood management

Cloudburst resiliency: Innovative solutions to heavy rainfall and coastal flooding

Private observations improve operational weather forecasts

Business of Weather talks to the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI), an international, NGO-driven project that seeks to expand the global conversation around the governance of climate engineering research

Co-operation between the public, private and academic sectors is crucial to the effective use of weather & climate data to help save lives, build social resilience, and to enhance economic efficiency and financial stability

Severe weather impacts on ground and flight operations and the application of innovative observing systems for risk reduction.

One of the most striking and persistent climate anomalies of recent years has been the widespread unusual warmth that has affected the North Pacific Ocean.

ClusterTech co-hosts a live webinar with Pure Storage and NVIDIA.

Winter services save lives. In a pilot project, Technical Services Offenburg (TBO) show how their database can be improved with little effort.

Data sharing – Incentive-based data exchange

Sensor-based air quality monitoring: opportunities, impacts and challenges

Business of Weather spoke to the founder, CEO and chairman of Raymetrics, Nikos Kontos, about the company and about pollution monitoring and other applications for LIDAR technology