"By 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, the weather service had recorded about 4,800 lightning strikes from Sacramento to San Luis Obispo, including 1,300 that touched the ground. The weather service said an unknown amount of fires started overnight in southeast Monterey County and in southwestern Fresno County early Tuesday. It was not known immediately how big any of those fires were, but Cal Fire had not reported any new ones on its list of California's major ones."
"The lightning came with low rumblings of thunder and in some areas small bits of rain that were too small to measure, Gass said. It developed quickly as monsoonal moisture from the southern part of the Pacific Ocean and the southwestern desert shifted course and moved north, he said. There already was a trough of low pressure in the upper part of the atmosphere, Gass said. Then you had the monsoonal moisture that worked its way into our area."
Thousands of lightning strikes occurred overnight from the Bay Area to the Central Valley as increasingly unstable air sparked a number of fires. By early Tuesday morning the weather service recorded about 4,800 strikes, including roughly 1,300 ground strikes. Cal Fire reported no new major wildfires by 8 a.m., though unknown fires were reported in southeast Monterey and southwestern Fresno counties. The Garnet Fire in Fresno County has burned 26,982 acres and is 12% contained, raising concerns that new lightning could cause additional ignitions. Monsoonal moisture interacting with an upper-level trough produced brief storms and instability, with isolated thunderstorms possible later.
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