Dry Lightning Storm Bay Area

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.

Dry lightning storm bay area.

A lightning storm flashes across the bay area sky on aug. Lightning strikes lit up the bay area on aug. Through tuesday the same time for the entire bay area and central coast. Craig mole photography courtesy show more show less 2 of 4.

But the predicted evening arrival of erratic winds and dry lightning threatened to spark new blazes and. And that s making these lightning storms especially dangerous in combination with the high winds swain tweeted. Firefighters fear dry lightning erratic winds could drive blazes. But elsewhere in the bay area the thunderstorms seemed mostly to be dry.

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. Jose carlos fajardo bay area news group. 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. The fire weather watch is in effect from sunday at 11 a m.

Weather officials said initial scattered dry thunderstorms could. A severe lightning storm caused several fires near the round valley regional preserve and morgan territory regional preserve over the weekend.