Dry Lightning Storm Bay Area

Jose carlos fajardo bay area news group.

Dry lightning storm bay area.

A severe lightning storm caused several fires near the round valley regional preserve and morgan territory regional preserve over the weekend. Craig mole photography courtesy show more show less 2 of 4. 16 2020 amid. Lightning strikes lit up the bay area on aug.

Unstable air from an approaching tropical storm moving into mexico may create lightning strikes on tinder dry land similar to what started more than 300 fires now ravaging the state mostly in. Firefighters fear dry lightning erratic winds could drive blazes. Weather officials said initial scattered dry thunderstorms could. A rare august storm system rolled through the san francisco bay area early sunday packing a combination of dry lightning and high winds that triggered wildfires throughout the region.

But the predicted evening arrival of erratic winds and dry lightning threatened to spark new blazes and. A lightning storm flashes across the bay area sky on aug. And that s making these lightning storms especially dangerous in combination with the high winds swain tweeted. Though the scale of the last week s dry lightning strikes seems extraordinary cindy palmer a meteorologist in the bay area office of the national weather service said it wasn t that unusual.

The storm that brought dry lightning heavy wind gusts and even some rain to the bay area on sunday morning has caused numerous large power outages in addition to vegetation fires. But elsewhere in the bay area the thunderstorms seemed mostly to be dry.