Dry Lightning Storm Bay Area

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.

Dry lightning storm bay area.

Craig mole photography courtesy show more show less 2 of 4. 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. Lightning strikes lit up the bay area on aug. 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. Meteorologists confidence is increasing that the san francisco bay area will see thunderstorms lightning and high winds this weekend and into early next week as surges of. Firefighters fear dry lightning erratic winds could drive blazes. The fire weather watch is in effect from sunday at 11 a m.

Through tuesday the same time for the entire bay area and central coast. 16 2020 amid. 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. 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.

But the predicted evening arrival of erratic winds and dry lightning threatened to spark new blazes and. Weather officials said initial scattered dry thunderstorms could.