It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area

Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by samcheng on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:14PM (#24180854)

There are plenty of Bay Area adults who can't remember the last time there was lightning here. It's that rare. Fun times!

I worry about wildfire in the hills, since it hadn't rained for months. Thankfully, it wasn't an entirely dry storm. We had quite a bit of rain in my corner of Palo Alto last night - more than the 0.01 trace amount officially reported.

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by kurthr on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:33PM (#24181048)

Adults in the Bay Area. who can't remember lightning have memory issues. There was a huge [lightning] storm in 2012, and there was lighting in [edit: this] May... I've seen lighting, thunder, and hail (caught on video) in the last 12 months.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Thunder-lightnin...

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by samcheng on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:10PM (#24181349)

Hmm. I must have slept through the 2012 event. This one definitely woke me up.

I do remember a glorious ~2004-ish thunderstorm, right at dusk, rolling over the Santa Cruz mountains. So maybe a little more than once a decade or so for the big lightning events?

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by ianai on Sunday August 16, 2020 @06:13PM (#24181815)

I thought it rained frequently there? I love far enough away to not know. Have also lived in the driest part of the US in the past...gratefully the past.

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by gkop on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:05PM (#24183170)

It rains quite a bit in winter, especially November through January. But lightning is very rare.

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by Fishysoup on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:13PM (#24181373)

It was bananas. Glad it rained too because wildfires are the last thing we need with all the madness this year has been throwing at us.

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by dehrmann on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:11PM (#24181356)

> I worry about wildfire in the hills, since it hadn't rained for months.

The Bay Area rarely gets summer rain, and what we get is pretty negligible. Since you said "hills," here's what I found for La Honda:

https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca4660

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by vmception on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:31PM (#24181032)

The great thing about having so many transplants is that nobody cares about basic weather patterns like this.

The only news is the fires if there are an abnormal amount of them.

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by Redoubts on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:43PM (#24183035)

Yeah seriously. This gave me flashbacks to Boston.

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