Lightning/Thunder Delay

[Rich Ives]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

In most of the places I umpire, there is some sort of field administration. For liability purposes, I'm very reluctant to be the one making the decision to keep playing if the reason for quitting was lightning. Field admin tells us when to go back. I think the 30-minute rule is faulty, by the way. Fields should have lightning meters to measure how far things are away.

The 30 Minute rule is from NOAA. What do you know that they don't?

Do you want the $250 meter or the $20,000 system?

We have the $250 meter (set at 8-20 miles). We pause to look if we get an alarm and wait 30 minutes if we see a flash. The terrain here pushes storms around us a lot.