Retrieve recent global lightning strike data for a region from the Vaisala Xweather (AerisWeather) Lightning API
domain: api.aerisapi.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Obtain an access ID and secret key from an active Xweather Weather API subscription/registration.
Call the lightning endpoint with a location or bounding-box query and your client_id/client_secret credentials appended per Xweather's request format.
Parse returned strike records, which include strike type/pulse, location, polarity, and amperage.
Note that lightning data is only available for a short rolling recent window (on the order of the last several minutes), not a deep historical archive, via this endpoint.
Combine with Xweather's severe-weather or storm-cell endpoints if correlating lightning with storm tracking is needed.
Known gotchas
The lightning endpoint exposes only very recent strikes (last few minutes) — it is not a historical lightning-climatology data source.
Full endpoint access requires an active paid subscription tier; some Xweather endpoints are gated separately from the base plan.
Credentials are a client ID/secret pair, not a single API key — requests malformed with just one value will be rejected.
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