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Lightning will be measured from the sky in future
The new lightning systems will be placed over 35,000 kilometres from Earth and will give new ways to monitor and predict storms.
The instrument will spot lightening that goes from cloud to the ground as well as lightning that goes from cloud to cloud by looking at cloud tops.
Photograph: C. Clark Wikimedia Commons
Dr Jochen Grandell from the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meterological Satellites says: "Lightning is a very good proxy for severe weather. In fact, it is a lead indicator - you often get lightning just before you get heavy rain, hail and big gusts of wind."
The Lightning Imager will be one of Europe's next generation Meteosats and will be launched from late 2017.
For more information visit EUMETSAT.
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