The lightning forced San Diego International Airport to briefly stop fueling jets.
Wild thunderstorms erupted across San Diego County on Friday, producing 283 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes as of 6 p.m. that hit locations as widespread as the flats of Mission Bay, the slopes of Palomar Mountain and the spiky treelines of Alpine, the National Weather Service said.
In La Mesa, a 50- to 60-foot-tall tree toppled over and stretched across Panorama Drive late in the afternoon, taking down live power lines and damaging a home. Heartland Fire Battalion Chief Sam Rihan told OnScene.TV that officials believe weather was to blame. “It’s pretty rare to have this type of thunderstorm pattern in the county at this time of year,” said Phil Gonsalves, a weather service forecaster. “We could get more” Saturday, he said.
By late afternoon, the airport had recorded almost half an inch of rain, pushing its seasonal total to roughly 5.22 inches. Point Loma got 0.56 inches. And parts of Palomar got drenched with 1.69 inches and hail the size of a quarter.
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