I had noticed this earlier and seen the darker/white colours and then wondered if there was any thunderstoms within.

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ shows the precipitation further SE than the lightning radar shows all the activity http://en.allmetsat.com/images/lightning-europe-anim.php and http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&subpage_0=12 (the lightning is where the centre of the low is from what i can tell)

I know the two dont always go together, but often do.

Is this something to do with the radars not covering the western isles? or unconnected.  Also, does anyone know when that will be fixed?  Most of our weather comes from the NW and poor coverage up there is annoying since coverage reduced.

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Rob K is just wrong. Fact 😝

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Thanks for your help on this matter 

I actually think i am wrong, but i also want to know when the radar coverage will be fixed (I think it is only since the storm last thurs but could be wrong)

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I would have thought lightning strike data is much more likely to be misplaced than the rain radar? Certainly with storms down here in the past I've noticed the "strikes" seem to have been 50+ miles out quite often in the past..

PS Matty 😛

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Grey area is lightning data sometimes, take ya detector and take ya choice of lightning strikes.... certainly a lack of continuity over the different sites. .

Is this down to faulty raw data or the way the data is displayed on maps?

I've had lightning strikes within a mile of where I am, and they have never appeared on maps, I've had no lightning and yet Leicester has been paintballed with coloured dots (squares or pixels)

Just why are the different services/providers/maps/strike locations so often incorrect? Who or what is the main error causing issue?

Cheers
VSC

Edited for spelling...