Thunderstorms: how can you protect your teams and outdoor activities?

Outdoor operations: making the right decisions under lightning risk

Thunderstorms don’t just create safety risks. They create uncertainty in decision-making.

Should you stop operations now? Is it too early — or already too late? And most importantly: when is it safe to resume without losing time unnecessarily?

In many outdoor activities, these questions arise on a daily basis. While lightning-related accidents remain relatively rare, decisions are often made:

• too late
• too conservatively
• or without clear, objective criteria

As a result, organisations either expose their teams to risk — or generate unnecessary operational downtime. In reality, thunderstorms are not unpredictable phenomena.

With proper detection and real-time monitoring, it is possible to understand how a storm evolves, assess its potential impact on a specific area, and make more informed operational decisions. The challenge is not only to detect storms, but to decide at the right moment:

• When should operations be stopped?
• When is it actually necessary?
• And when can activities safely resume?

Beyond safety, access to reliable lightning data is a real performance driver. It allows organisations to move away from precaution-based decisions and towards objective, data-driven choices, helping to:

• avoid unnecessary work interruptions
• reduce downtime
• and justify decisions internally

On the agenda

During this webinar, Meteorage experts will share practical insights from real operational contexts. The session will focus on the key challenge faced by many organisations: how to make the right decision under storm conditions.

It will cover:

• how lightning activity develops and why it is often misinterpreted
• common decision-making pitfalls (too early, too late, too long)
• how to define clear and robust decision thresholds
• how to structure your approach before, during and after a storm
• and how lightning detection data can be used as a decision-support tool

A practical perspective will illustrate how better anticipation helps protect teams while optimising operations.

Practical information

• Thunderstorms: How to Protect Your Teams and Outdoor Operations
• Date: June 17th, 2026
• Time: 10:00 AM CET
• Format: Online webinar

Register now to join the session and learn how to better anticipate lightning risk, improve decision-making and secure your operations. Not available at this time? Register to receive the replay.

About Meteorage

As the operator of a European lightning detection network, Meteorage supports organisations in monitoring lightning activity, anticipating storm risks and making informed decisions based on reliable data adapted to their operational environment.