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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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