Dan Luke wrote:

I would expect to see the lightning wherever you see
the most intense precipitation, so having precipitation intensity and
lightning data would be at least somewhat redundant. No?

No. There's often heavy precip with no sparks in it, especially in
winter. I must caution that you should be careful using *any* weather
gear to cut too close to heavy weather, whether you see indications of
lightning or not. I have never used a Stormscope or Strikefinder, but
it seems to me they would be better for real time, close up monitoring
of convective activity. Still, the lightning data in WxWorx gives me an
idea of which storms have the real rough stuff in them.

Agreed, yesterday here in SC-LA we had a heavy downpour, the boomers
went away during that period and most frequently do. Its the fringes
that have the lighting, wind and hail...