Radar on or off should not make any difference to a lightning strike. Radar is quite handy for staying in the good breeze of a squall. Or, I suppose, avoiding one if you are some kind of sissy. kinda kidding.
radar dosnt show prefrontal winds, which a re fun to sail when ye own brick like mine..LOL.... fuuunnnn sailing!!!!! so what if a lil ol squall hits?? if just under reefed jib n reefed mizzen, wont hurt ye--i know,mark--ye has a single mast--is alll goood--- you can deal with it..yer a SAILOR!!!!
yeah and we DO all die- 10 out of 10 of us--aint no immortality except in our own mineds..LOL