CASE STUDY PGA Tour Lightning Warning System The Professional Golfers’ Association Tour (PGA Tour) of America contracted with Schneider Electric to provide hazardous weather forecasts for the Champions, Seniors, and Ladies Pro- fessional Golf Association (LPGA) golf tours, and for several other premiere golf events. In addition to high-resolution fore- casts, lightning-strike and radar data, and other data and forecasts from the Schneider Electric home office, meteo - rologists assigned to cover the events have Internet access to real-time radar and lightning-strike data from the Na- tional Lightning Data Network (NLDN). This information allows them to fore- cast the arrival time of storms moving in their direction to better schedule the events and their TV coverage. However

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