The thunderstorms that occurred throughout Los Angeles County early Wednesday and into the day killed a woman and two dogs this morning.
That could change as the weather gets wetter throughout Wednesday, increasing the moisture levels on the ground."But the threat for that dry lightning with not much rain from the storm is definitely decreasing," he said., which occurs as a result of heat building throughout the summer, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate.gov.
Water vapor animation for the afternoon of August 22, 2018 showing the monsoon circulation and thunderstorm formation . Dry air is shown in orange. Kittell said that rain will come and go throughout L.A., with different regions getting between one-tenth and 1 inch of precipitation. "With the off-and-on-again, randomly located nature of this system, in the setup, the amounts will be highly variable," he said.Corrected June 22, 2022 at 4:25 PM PDT
A previous version of this story misreported the number of historical lightning deaths in California. LAist regrets the error.
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