Lightning/Thunder Delay

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Rich Ives

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.

Who is NOAA? No ... I'm no expert - but I do think that a lot of umpires / referees / field admin / whatever use the 30 minute rule as a crutch to avoid getting a meter, and assume that it's safe if they haven't seen something in 30 minutes. A lot of the time, the meter sees things that we don't. A LOT safer with a meter.