Yesterday, I found a very useful mobile phone app for the thunderstorm season. ‘BlitzortungLive’ is from the operators of the excellent website Blitzortung.org. The advantage over the website is that there are no adverts and you can select the approximate (antenna) location on the map and specify whether you want to receive a ‘push alarm’, i.e. a notification about thunderstorms. You can even select different radii around your location. The app then displays the lightning strikes and, even if you don’t check it every hour, you will immediately receive a notification on your phone when a thunderstorm is approaching within the desired radius around your location. This gives you enough time to react and unplug your antennas, if you don’t switch them off or unplug them anyway in summer when they are not in use.