Meteorologists have hailed a new space-based detector for its ability to predict severe storms, after spectacular first observations were released showing lightning flashing many times a second over Europe and Africa.
The imager on Europe’s Meteosat Third Generation satellite, launched last December, detects all lightning activity from its geostationary orbit 36,000km above the equator over west Africa — a field of view that covers more than 80 per cent of Earth.
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