![]() ![]() ![]() “I think people have short memories,” she said. 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. There is likely more to come, given the forecasts of thunderstorms, dry lightning and wind gusts for the Bay Area on Sunday and Monday. ![]() The enormous volume of lightning strikes - some 12,000 - and the number of ignitions - 585 so far - makes it impossible for firefighting crews to contain many of the starts before they blend together, forming monsters that can burn for weeks or even months before dying out. As of Saturday morning, the LNU Lightning Complex fire in the Napa-Sonoma County region had scorched more than 300,000 acres, making it the state’s second-largest after 2018’s human-caused Mendocino Complex fire.Īt roughly 292,000 acres, the SCU Complex fire in the East Bay region is the third-largest. ![]()
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