Jose wrote:

I seem to remember live lightning maps being available, similar to radar
maps but showing lightning strikes. However I can't find them. It
seems they would be quite useful for preflight, and as an onboard
weather too. Anybody know where these are (or if I'm just misremembering?)

Lightning Explorer is the one I use, but it is only US-based and
continental US-wide:

https://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/tux...r/explorer.jsp

I recall reading here that the private sector was quicker to the draw in
developing lightning detection equipment and quicker in restricting the
data to paying customers only, which seems to explain the apparent lack of
free, detailed lightning data maps in the US (or, at least as far as I am
aware).

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Peter