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- Dry lightning has ignited some of the most destructive and costly wildfires in California history, a new study shows. Researchers found that over the past few decades, nearly half of the lightning strikes that hit the ground during spring and summer had been dry — there was no rain falling nearby.
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Aug 8, 2022 · A new study found that dry lighting may be the leading cause of California wildfires. Researchers from Washington State University Vancouver put together the first, long-term climatology of dry lightning in central and northern California. Dry lightning occurs with less than 2.5 millimeters of rain.
Aug 8, 2022 · Scientists have identified the weather conditions that create dry lightning, which starts California's most devastating wildfires. These conditions can be modelled over the long term...
Aug 8, 2022 · A new study has found dry lightning outbreaks are the leading cause of some of the largest wildfire outbreaks in modern California history. Despite this, dry lightning has remained largely ...
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Aug 8, 2022 · California has a particularly fiery history with dry lightning – during the “Fire Siege of 1987”, thousands of wildfires ignited by widespread dry lightning burned around 260,000...
Aug 8, 2022 · Moisture and instability high in the atmosphere were key drivers of dry lightning across all regions in central and northern California. A new study has found dry lightning outbreaks are the leading cause of some of the largest wildfire outbreaks in modern California history.
Aug 14, 2023 · Dry lightning — when strikes occur with little or no rainfall — has sparked some of California’s biggest and most destructive wildfires. The August Complex of 2020, for example, burned over a...
