Abstract: A meteorological electromagnetic measuring system contains a plurality of measuring stations which are physically distributed in a given area. Each measuring station contains at least one spherics receiver to pick up spherics signals and a transmission device to transfer measuring data available in the measuring station and derived from the spherics signals to a central evaluation unit assigned to the measuring stations. The measuring stations are disposed such that an average distance between adjacent measuring stations is less than 50 km for area wide detection of short-range spherics signals.