AccuWeather
Lightning Network®
The AccuWeather Lightning Network®(AWLN) is the world’s leading lightning detection and prediction network — built to minimize injuries, fatalities, and economic damage from lightning.
Lightning is the
most underappreciated
weather hazard
Lightning poses a particular threat to golfers, people in and around swimming pools, and outdoor workers — especially those in the open or near trees. Better detection and prediction saves lives and minimizes economic damage.
Estimated lives lost to lightning per year, globally.
In U.S. economic loss annually from property damage, fires, and infrastructure disruption.
AccuWeather’s Superior Accuracy™ has saved over 12,000 lives and prevented injury to over 100,000 people across 60+ years of forecasting.
AccuWeather is building the world’s leading lightning detection and prediction network — to minimize injuries, fatalities, and economic damage from lightning
The result: more advance notice, safer decisions, and faster recovery for businesses, governments, and the public. AWLN delivers real-time lightning data, SkyGuard® Severe Weather Warnings, lightning forecasts, and complete historical strike records.
Six delivery channels, one network. Stream the live feed into ops dashboards, route alerts to the field, or pipe historical strikes into your data warehouse — without rebuilding the pipeline.
Precision Detection.
Predictive Advantage
AWLN delivers detailed data on every lightning strike — cloud-to-cloud vs. cloud-to-ground classification, strike intensity, polarity, and precise location — within seconds of occurrence. Combined with AccuWeather’s two-hour-ahead lightning probability forecasts, AWLN gives your organization the advance notice to act, not just react.
Historical Lightning
A complete record of past lightning strikes for forensic analysis, insurance claims, and post-event review.
Real-Time Lightning
Current strikes and recent activity delivered within seconds of occurrence — with the precision your operations demand.
Lightning Forecast
AccuWeather’s predictive model delivers two-hour-ahead probability of lightning, with active work underway to extend that window further by incorporating thunderstorm formation forecasts.
When lightning threatens,
AWLN keeps you ahead of it
One network powering safer decisions across stadiums, job sites, claims desks, research labs, and classrooms.
Enhanced Safety
Better protect people and property with SkyGuard® Severe Weather Warnings, delivering advance notice when it matters most.
Operational Efficiency
Coaches resume play sooner. Outdoor workforces return faster. Better predictions end suspensions earlier when the threat clears — and provide earlier warning when it does not.
Insurance & Risk Management
Complete historical strike records support forensic analysis, claims investigation, and risk modeling.
Environmental & Infrastructure Monitoring
Protect critical assets with precise, real-time detection across your locations.
Educational Institutions
Campus safety powered by the same network trusted by Fortune 500 companies and governments worldwide.
Become an AWLN Sensor Host
Help expand the world’s leading lightning detection network. AccuWeather is seeking individuals, businesses, and schools to host an LPS-200 lightning detection sensor. Your participation directly improves lightning detection accuracy — and helps protect communities worldwide.
Minutes matter when lives are on the line
If you are not using AWLN’s Superior Accuracy™-backed lightning detection and forecasting, you are potentially leaving your people, property, and operations exposed. Talk to an AccuWeather expert today.