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Mandatory evacuations for the area were recently announced. Sunol’s Marsh Fire has already burnt 1,775 acres with zero percent containment. “June 2008 would be a good proxy, but don’t recall the Bay Area getting nearly as much convection.” “This 20 year forecaster can’t recall such a widespread convective event on the heels of such a heat wave,” the author wrote. Since Sunday, 13 new fires, many in Santa Cruz County, were ignited. On Monday, the NWS wrote a follow up to the weekend’s events, including the alarming news that there were eight relatively large fires-including the Marsh Fire in Sunol and the Deer Zone Fires in Contra Costa County-burning across the Bay Area, along with some and smaller ones, with more likely to appear on the radar. Was the Bay Area also dealing with big fires this weekend? That storm followed a very dry spring, and more than 600 wildfires were tied to it. The 2008 lightning siege in Northern California saw more than 6,000 lightning strikes over two days that June. “The last time we’ve seen this level of lightning activity is back in 2008,” said Anderson. NWS’s chart shows that far more lightning strikes were recorded in Oakland than in other Bay Area locations. The entire weather event totaled roughly 2,300 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes from Monterey to Napa. In a tweet, NWS shared a striking number-212 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes had been reported since 5 a.m. Nearly 200 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes!” he wrote. “This is an INCREDIBLE amount of lightning moving into the Bay Area right now. KGO-TV meteorologist Drew Tuma tweeted his astonishment in the early hours of Sunday morning. As we moved into Saturday night, a disturbance moving around this ridge tapped into Tropical Storm Fausto’s tropical moisture, causing thunderstorms to develop.Īnderson and other meteorologists at NWS Bay Area watched the disturbance as it approached Southern California and moved up the coast around Point Conception, through the Monterey Bay area, and up into the Bay Area. Basically, a very large ridge of high, hot, and dry pressure sitting over the desert Southwest brought us hot temperatures over the past several days.