![]() Courtesy: Danielle Taft Courtesy: Marco Trasmondi Pismo Beach To see the latest information on PG&E outages, click here. In the San Luis Obispo Perfumo Canyon area, 70 customers were still without power at 10:15 a.m. It sounded like a bomb went off and we looked over and then we saw fire and lights and everything going off and then everything went black,” said Barbie Reyna, a Paso Robles resident. “All of a sudden it’s just like, we just heard it blow up. Neighbors say a PG&E power pole was struck by lightning. Power outages were reported throughout the night for thousands of people including parts of Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Grover Beach, Arroyo Grande and parts of southern Santa Barbara County.Īround 9 p.m., more than 100 customers were without power along Highway 46 from Geneseo Road to just past Union Road in Paso Robles. Carson Dolan caught this in Nipomo this evening. Zap! This is why you don't stand under trees in a #lightning storm. Lightning show ⚡️ □ □ in Shell Beach tonight #beonksby #palmtreezap /wsBJyHBsPs KSBY Chief Meteorologist Dave Hovde says lightning strikes on the Central Coast are not uncommon in winter however, outbreaks like we had Tuesday night are the kind of thing we might only see once or twice a decade! The red marks indicate lightning strikes. This lightning detection graph is from the National Interagency Fire Center. The National Weather Service said Tuesday that they don’t keep track of lightning strike totals, but they did confirm there were thousands across the Southern California region. #CAwx– Lightning strikes in the skies above Santa Barbara, CA, March 5, 2019, as seen in these views from Stearns Wharf. Subscribe today.As the storm moved through the Central Coast Monday night into Tuesday, Mother Nature put on a dazzling display and left some residents in the dark. Follow him on Twitter Support local coverage and keep up with the North State for as little as $1 a month. Matt Brannon covers politics, the criminal justice system and breaking news for the Record Searchlight. More: This exclusive map measures wildfire hazards in communities across the West "Unfortunately, we could see more thunderstorms possibly igniting fires again," Smerbeck said. The National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch in much of northeastern California from Sunday through Tuesday with possible fire starts from lightning with little to no rainfall.Įxperts are watching Tropical Storm Genevieve, as its lingering moisture could bring more lightning northward. Now, meteorologists are working to find out what comes next. Smerbeck said he watched hundreds of fire hotspots pop up along the coast and into Northern California over satellite imagery as the moisture caused two surges of thunderstorms Sunday and Monday. "It's more conducive to thunderstorms," Smerbeck said. "That's all you really need." He said it's more typical to have monsoon moisture come into Northern California from the east, but in this instance, the culprit was the tropical moisture from the southwest.Ĭalifornia fire tracker: Map traces current fires burning across state in real-timeĪnd what's so threatening about tropical moisture? Speaking about Northern California, Smerbeck said the weather pattern leading to the storms was extreme - an abnormal occurrence of tropical moisture from the Pacific Ocean making it farther north and west than usual this time of year. So why has there been a higher volume of storms lately? ![]() "Once the lightning hits the dry stuff, it blows it to smithereens and catches it on fire." "(Through the) coast ranges and forest up in Northern California, there's a lot of fuel there, and once you get to the spring it, dries out and bakes," he said. It's not so much that the latest storms were particularly lightning prone, but that the large volume of storms created more opportunities for lightning to ignite the hot, dry terrain, according to AccuWeather senior meteorologist Bob Smerbeck. ![]()
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