LAST June 22, 21:00 Chris Wagaski, meteorologist with Vaisala, which maps lightning strikes around in in world, said on Twitter on Wednesday night what total of 54,329 lightning bolts events were found in California for UTC day 22 June.
“Majority in in one day since September 8, 2017, when 56,059 people were discovered,” Wagaski said. “This is the 6th highest daily total since 2015”.
Wagaski told SFGATE: “Surprisingly, this lightning is from last 24 hours almost 9% of in total lightning detected in California in 2020 and 2021 combined.”
June 22, 11:50 Push of monsoonal moisture moving into Southern California, the Central Valley, and the southern Sierra Nevada. on Wednesday morning triggered thunderstorms who threw dozens of thousands of lightning strikes and caused one death as well as one injury. The meteorologists said weather event unusual for June in California.
Chris Wagaski, meteorologist with Vaisala, which maps lightning strikes around in in world, said on The North American Lightning Detection Network on Twitter recorded 25,000 strikes between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.
Wagaski said that this number puts event in top 2% of daily amount of lightning in California.
Belonging total strikes, Wagaski told SFGATE that 9,427 flew from cloud to ground, while the rest in- the cloud pulsates and does not reach the ground.
“It’s anomalous event for June,” Wagaski said. – Most active period for lightning usually occurs from July to September when the monsoon has really set in.”
This is reported by the National Weather Service. thunderstorms and lightning strikes across Southern California and the southern Central Valley on Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning. More than an inch of the rain was falling over Los Angeles and Ventura County 12 hours later and there were reports of some pea-sized hail. Firefighters answered to fire it was probably started by lightning in Ventura County.
“There were several of very small on fire, but hard to confirm if they were launched by lightning,” said forecaster Ryan Kittell. with Los Angeles weather service office. “Was small fire in Glendale. Everything was real small. There was nothing that would become very large. Even what one in Ventura stayed small.”
The woman and her dogs were reportedly struck by lightning on Wednesday morning. in Pico Rivera, city about 15 miles southeast of downtown los angeles, several media outlets reported.
It notes first death lightning in California in 2022 and third in in past three years, the Thunderstorm Safety Council said.
city of Pico Rivera called on residents to cancel all outdoor activities because of rainy weather.
Approximately 160 miles northeast of Pico Rivera, a man was struck by lightning in Ridgecrest at about 7:30, pushing baby in stroller and walks dogsaid Captain Aaron Tucker, Ridgecrest Police Department.
“When the officers arrived, they found a person who had been struck by lightning and this person was doing CPR,” Tucker said. “The victim regained consciousness. He was later taken to the hospital.”
Tucker said dog and baby didn’t get hurt.
thunderstorms covered a large area of California like a wet west of The Channel Islands drifted inland.
“It creating southerly flow from the Pacific Ocean to southern California, bringing sufficient moisture and instability to region for thunderstorm developmentwhen air begins to interact with California countryside,” Wagasky said. system moves over California and Nevada over in next a day or two, the supply of moisture will go away, and with it chance of storms.”
Monsoon moisture is expected to reach the San Francisco Bay Area. on Wednesday afternoon, but system likely to lose a lot of its strength and carry less moisture as it moves east-west from the Central Valley towards the coast. While thunderstorms in Southern California delivered some showers of rain, storm activity expected to bring less rain in in north.
“I would say for most of the time we see scattered showers with a high base with a potentially isolated thunderstorm or two,” said Drew Peterson, forecaster. with bay area weather service office. “The most likely areas for it’s pretty much from Hollister north to Benicia including everything of Santa Clara County, Contra Costa County, Alameda County, Solano County, and Napa County, with in highest possibility on Oriental side of these counties.
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” network discovers more than 95% of cloud-to-ground flashes with 100m accuracy,” Wagaski told SFGATE. for previous story.
