Lightning Tracker vs Earth Exhibit

Lightning Alerts is a live lightning tracker and storm map for nearby strike awareness, powered by enterprise-grade lightning data. Open the map without creating an app account. Check recent strike activity before travel, golf, hiking, boating, surfing, fishing, open-water activities, or everyday weather planning. The map can show both ground-reaching and intracloud strikes. Ground mode helps filter cloud flashes so busy storms are easier to read. What you can see: - Live map of recent strike activity - Nearby alerts for your location or a saved place - No app account required to open the map - Ground-reaching and intracloud strike types - Ground mode to reduce cloud-flash noise - Closest-strike distance, age, direction, and street context - Strike strength, polarity, and detailed strike type - Polarity filter: show only positive or only negative ground and cloud strikes - Strength filter and Find > Strongest in view - Find > Strike history: the last 7 days around your location or saved place, with storm replays - Camera aim: where to point your camera and how far to tilt it for red sprites above a distant storm - Weather radar with strikes on the same map - Save one place you care about - Clear controls for alerts, ads, privacy, and analytics - Optional monthly Pro subscription: no ads and unlimited storm replays Use Lightning Alerts before you head outside, while storms are nearby, or when you want a clearer view of activity around a place. Choose the strike filter, inspect the closest strike, and use notifications to return to the live map when activity changes. Photographers and sprite chasers can show only positive ground strikes, which are less common and often stronger. Tap a strike to see its distance and direction. Lightning Alerts is a weather awareness tool, not an emergency warning system. Always follow official weather alerts, local rules, and venue safety guidance. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

The sky and the seasons are always doing something remarkable. You just rarely hear about it in time. Earth Exhibit fixes that. Track 600+ natural phenomena from around the world: auroras, solar and lunar eclipses, meteor showers, wildlife migrations, wildflower blooms, bioluminescent tides, tidal bores, and dozens of atmospheric optics like sun dogs, fire rainbows, and light pillars. For each one, Earth Exhibit tells you the thing that actually matters. Is it worth stepping outside for near you right now, and if not now, when. WHAT YOU GET • A live read on what's happening near you, scored from real weather, moon phase, darkness, tides, space weather, and seasonal timing, not guesswork. • A Field Clock that answers "what's worth going outside for today, and when": golden hour, the clear-sky window, tonight's best stargazing, and any sky events. • Alerts when something you're watching is genuinely coming together. A geomagnetic storm pushing the aurora south, a meteor shower peaking under clear skies, a seasonal window opening near you. • A Coming Soon view of upcoming eclipses, conjunctions, and seasonal events with real dates and countdowns. • Detailed guides for every phenomenon: where to go, the best time of day, what conditions you need, and what to expect. • A way to log what you've seen, with photos and notes, and browse what others spotted. BUILT ON REAL DATA Earth Exhibit pulls from trusted public sources, including NOAA space-weather feeds, Open-Meteo forecasts, astronomical models, and wildlife observation databases, and combines them into one honest answer per phenomenon. When it tells you something is worth seeing, that is because the conditions actually support it. FOR TRAVELERS AND BACKYARD WATCHERS ALIKE Search anywhere in the world to plan a trip around a phenomenon, or find out what is visible from your own backyard tonight. No account is required to explore. Sign in to save phenomena, set alerts, and log your own sightings.