The fire weather watch is in effect from sunday at 11 a m.
Dry lightning storm bay area.
Meteorologists confidence is increasing that the san francisco bay area will see thunderstorms lightning and high winds this weekend and into early next week as surges of.
Jose carlos fajardo bay area news group.
But elsewhere in the bay area the thunderstorms seemed mostly to be dry.
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.
A severe lightning storm caused several fires near the round valley regional preserve and morgan territory regional preserve over the weekend.
Weather officials said initial scattered dry thunderstorms could.
And that s making these lightning storms especially dangerous in combination with the high winds swain tweeted.
But the predicted evening arrival of erratic winds and dry lightning threatened to spark new blazes and.
The storm that brought dry lightning heavy wind gusts and even some rain to the bay area on sunday morning has caused numerous large power outages in addition to vegetation fires.
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Through tuesday the same time for the entire bay area and central coast.
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Firefighters fear dry lightning erratic winds could drive blazes.
Lightning strikes lit up the bay area on aug.