Lightning-caused fires are more prevalent in the northern half of the state, particularly over mountainous terrain.
, prompted by that historic event. For a sunbaked land now deep into a drought, the top-line findings are ominous: There may be more of these strikes than realized.
“It just takes a one- or two-day outbreak … to really set off a very costly and destructive wildfire season,” Kalashnikov said. He added that 2020 was a slow lightning season overall — “but that didn’t matter.”When the smoke from the fires that year cleared, Kalashnikov discovered that the topic of dry lightning in California was ripe for examination.
Kalashnikov’s team learned that not only does elevated terrain get more strikes from dry lightning than lower elevations , but their months of peak activity are also different. That’s based on an assessment of data from the National Lightning Detection Network and of precipitation totals found in the high-resolution gridMET data set.
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