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Red flag warnings are in place for Southern California due to Santa Ana winds that will bring gusts up to 65 mph and “extremely rare and dangerous” fire weather conditions.
Power outages could also take effect as SoCal Edison notified more than 200,000 of its customers in the area that they may have to shut off their power as a precaution due to the red flag warnings.
Remnants of Tropical Storm Alberto produced hundreds of dry lightning strikes across California's ... spark California wildfires, with more possible. ... started due to a lightning strike Monday ...
More than 27,000 customers across California at one point had their power cut due to increased wildfire risks, and many more could soon experience the safety shutoffs.
The PDS red flag warning below was issued by the National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada, on December 19, 2017. [9] On August 3, 2018, the National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada, issued another PDS red flag warning to communicate the threat of life-threatening fire danger due to strong gusty winds and low humidity.
A series of 650 wildfires ignited across Northern California in mid-August 2020, due to a siege of dry lightning from rare, massive summer thunderstorms, which were caused by an unusual combination of very hot, dry air at the surface, dry fuels, and advection of moisture from the remains of Tropical Storm Fausto northward into the Bay Area.
A satellite animation from Aug. 15 to Aug. 19 shows lightning (red/green/blue) and subsequently wildfires in California (orange spots).
The Six Rivers (SRF) Lightning Complex fires were a series of related wildfires that burned in the Six Rivers National Forest in California from August to November 2022 as part of the 2022 California wildfire season. The fire complex consisted of 12 fires located in Humboldt and Trinity counties. [1]