Artificial intelligence used to predict lightning strikes

Through the new technology, which was developed by researchers at Saarland University in Germany, the scientists hope to be able to predict storms with greater accuracy than ever before. Lightning is a common occurrence in most parts of the world. Often pretty to watch, the risk of injury can be very high. In the case of the researchers' own country, June 2019 saw 177,000 lightning bolts in the night sky occurring over just a few days. The outcome was that many people were injured, either directly by the lightning or by the associated storm.