Lightning in Midrand

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Lightning in Midrand

Postby Slider » Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:56 am

Guys, I need to know if we had any lightning strikes / thunder storms, in Midrand around 13H00 until 14H00 on the 22 Nov 2010. Google can’t help
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Re: Lightning in Midrand

Postby cobra » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:28 pm

Hi Slider

the following link gives the weather data for midrand

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... &year=2010

scroll down to 13:00 - 14:30 my assumption is that there was a major storm with the wind gusting up to 66 kph, temperature drop of 9 deg and up to 11mm rain, clearing from at 14:30 ==> thunderstorm ==> lighting
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Re: Lightning in Midrand

Postby Slider » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:37 pm

Great thank you.
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Re: Lightning in Midrand

Postby Tailspin » Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:31 pm

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Why would you need that info - Your House / work get wacked :?:
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Re: Lightning in Midrand

Postby Slider » Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:36 am

One of our backup systems went off for 18 seconds, and everybody blames my UPS’s. ** We proved it was NOT that, so the supplier came up with a solution......... “an Analogue telephone connecting from the outside conducted lightning into the until”. Keep in mind that ONLY half of the equipment was lost for the 18 seconds and NOTHING ells. I just needed to see if any storm activity was causing this. I still cant see this being the cause of the failure. A well, as long as they don’t blame my facility, and they are happy, its fine with me 8)
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