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Nowcast, Summary – Boltek Lightning/2000 User Manual

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the system load meter spends a lot of time in the red area.
Occasional peaks in the yellow or red segments are normal.
They occur when the system is performing a particularly
computation-intensive operation, such as updating the
analysis window or the graph window.

During periods of little or no lightning activity,
Lightning/2000 only checks the lightning detection hardware
intermittently. The system load meter will light only the first
bar at these times.

NOWCast

The NOWCast window presents recent statistics textually.
Any alerts in effect are listed. The recent history of the stroke
rate, the strong stroke rate, the energy rate, the rates of the
stroke subtypes (if using the StormTracker hardware) and the
noise rate are detailed.

NOWCasts are not saved automatically, but the current
NOWCast may be saved at any time by choosing Save |
NOWCast
from the File menu. The hotkey for this action is
F5.

If you’re viewing a NOWCast, it can be saved to any location
by choosing Save as… from the File menu.

Summary

The Summary window gives a summary of lightning activity
since midnight local time. The total number of strokes,
strong strokes, energy units, the various stroke subtypes (if
using the StormTracker hardware) and noises are presented