Thunderstorms return to Northern California forecast with slight chance of dry lightning
SFGATE / Friday, August 21, 2020
At a time when massive fires sparked by thunderstorms are burning around the Bay Area, more lightning has entered the forecast, though weather officials said this event is unlikely to be as severe as the one last Sunday.
A surge of moisture from what will be the remnants of a tropical system called Genevieve is expected to move northward and bring a slight chance of storms to the Bay Area Sunday night and into Monday morning.
National Weather Service forecaster Roger Gass said dry lightning is more likely than rainfall with this event, and the chances currently stand at about 15% for the greater Bay Area.
The highest changes for lightning are currently Sunday night into Monday morning, but an initial weak pulse of moisture from the tropical storm could arrive as late as Saturday and thunderstorm chances could persist into Tuesday.
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Slight chance, but all it takes is one strike in the right place.
One of those unforeseen consequences of climate change, and a kind of domino effect at that: tropical moisture wending it's way north where it merges with intense heat, creating instability for lightning to occur, igniting wildfires. Is this the beginning of a new norm?
I remember one of George W Bush's responses to climate change warnings fifteen years or so ago. The motherfucker said, "We'll adapt."
How's that working out for everyone?
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