The online location I used last year for lightning doesn’t appear to be working anymore. Anyone know of a location where I can get a quick look at lightning activity online for this year?
Here are a few open-access links:
NIFC Lightning Viewer: https://lightningapi.nifc.gov/viewer/
VentuSky: https://www.ventusky.com/
FYI NIFC LV can be slow to load, refresh a few times if it vapor-locks
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Thanks much. Appreciate that.
I use an App “My Lightning Tracker” can be customized and setup for Alerts. 
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It seems the NIFC Lightning Viewer (at https://lightningapi.nifc.gov/viewer/ ) no longer works. Does anyone know what the replacement of it is? I found it pretty useful.
Still under negotiations with a vender but you can write NIFC and they can get you temporary access to the new lightning viewer but only 2 hour data currently. That is supposed to expand once finalized.
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https://www.lightningmaps.org/
You can change all the settings, track real time lightning as well as previous 24hrs.
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I also like using goes group energy density and flash count. Shows you what you are seeing on the ground and what’s coming.
https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-17&sec=full_disk&x=13621.0009765625&y=3648.000244140625&z=5&angle=0&im=18&ts=1&st=0&et=0&speed=170&motion=loop&maps[borders]=white&lat=0&p[0]=fire_temperature&p[1]=cira_glm_l2_group_energy&opacity[0]=1&opacity[1]=1&pause=0&slider=-1&hide_controls=1&mouse_draw=0&follow_feature=0&follow_hide=0&s=rammb-slider&draw_color=FFD700&draw_width=6
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