CLICK HERE if you have trouble viewing the photos on a mobile device. The message in Sunday afternoon’s briefing about the fires at the SCU Lightning Complex was clear: Hold official warnings, and prepare to go out. The SCU Complex Fire in parts of Santa Clara, Alameda, San Joaquin and …
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CLICK HERE if you have trouble viewing the photos on a mobile device HEALDSBURG – When smoke billowed into the air this week and evacuation alarms began to beep on their cell phones, many Sonoma County residents thought one thing: Not again. With the Walbridge Fire threatening Healdsburg and Guerneville …
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Firefighters are scrambling to bring dozens of wildfires under control in the Bay Area in support of an upcoming weather front that brings the possibility of more devastating lightning strikes. Unstable air from an impending tropical storm moving into Mexico could create lightning strikes on tinder-dry land, similar to what …
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Click over here if you have trouble viewing this gallery on a mobile device Thousands of fires have exploded through the Bay Area and Naples’ wine country, burning thousands of acres, forcing evacuations and sending residents an uncomfortable reminder that California’s fire season is well under way. Persistent hot weather …
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If you ever looked up during a thunderclap and a red jellyfish looked high in the air, you were not hallucinating. These tentacle-like spurts of red lightning are called sprites. They are ultra-fast bursts of electricity that creep through the upper regions of the atmosphere – between 37 and 50 …
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