The atmospheric pattern stoking California's record-breaking heat wave this week has also played a role in causing extreme lightning storms that have sparked scores of wildfires, weather and fire officials said on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES - The atmospheric pattern stoking California’s record-breaking heat wave this week has also played a role in causing extreme lightning storms that have sparked scores of wildfires, weather and fire officials said on Tuesday.
As of Tuesday afternoon, nearly 6,000 lightning strikes were recorded during a single 24-hour stretch, igniting more than 200 wildfires from the San Francisco Bay area north to California’s Gold Country, said Lynette Round, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection .
Governor Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency on Tuesday to ensure resources are available to combat the fires. Abnormally high temperatures that began roasting California on Friday, straining the state’s power grid and leading to rolling blackouts, are due to an enormous dome of high pressure hovering over America’s desert Southwest, weather officials said.
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