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A pyrocumulus cloud from the Station fire looms over downtown Los Angeles in August 2009. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times)
A woman and her two dogs were killed in a lightning strike in the Los Angeles area Wednesday morning as thunderstorms rolled through Southern California, Woman, 2 dogs die after being struck by ...
The August 2020 California lightning wildfires (also referred to as the August lightning siege or August wildfire siege) were a series of 650 wildfires that ignited across Northern California in mid-August 2020, due to a siege of dry lightning from rare, massive summer thunderstorms, which were caused by an unusual combination of very hot, dry air at the surface, dry fuels, and advection of ...
Lightning streaked through the sky above Los Angeles on Monday evening, October 4, as the National Weather Service (NWS) warned of “frequent lightning” over the city.This aerial footage ...
Downtown Los Angeles reached 112 °F (44 °C), the third time that temperature had been reached since 1877. [4] Progression.
The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year for wildfires in California. Over the course of the year, 8,648 fires burned 4,304,379 acres (1,741,920 ha), [1][2] more than four percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire ...
The lightning strike hit Lafayette Square, located in the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW, during a severe thunderstorm on Thursday. The strike occurred around 6:50 3rd victim of DC lightning ...
For the current fires in California, see 2024 California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of ...