Quite an unusual scene in the southern Sacramento Valley this morning. A few small thunderstorms going up! If you can hear thunder, you’re close enough to be struck by lightning. Widespread storms this afternoon for the Sierra with Flood Watches posted for the eastern slope,

Severe T-Storm Warning for Plumas until 3:15pm for large hail. Also, Flash Flood Warning continues for far eastern Sierra & Nevada counties.

More than 8,500 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes over the last 24 hours! Very impressive

Mudslide blocking parts of I-80 WB in Floriston. A Flash Flood Warning was in effect at the time and remains in effect through 4:30pm. Photo: Caltrans District 3

Very impressive pyrocumulus over the Garnet Fire in Fresno County. This plume rises to 30,000 ft!

Watching a good timelapse of a pyrocumulus over a fire gives great insights to the physics behind t-storms, specifically with respect to the anvil & mammatus. 🤓

Snapped this photo of the spider while walking the dogs this morning 😱

Nearly 5,000 outages in Placer County, presumably due to lightning, especially in the Lincoln to Rocklin area. Other outages reported in surrounding counties as well.

WOW! Look at the lightning captured over the Altamont this morning. #cawx

Just got back from a drive around the Carmichael area viewing the storm damage from this morning. Scattered tree damage appears to be in a 2-2.5 mile radius, generally facing north. The downed fence faces the NW direction. Based on these observations along with my own radar

🚨 Severe T-Storm Warning for El Dorado and Placer County through 3:15 PM. Large hail and damaging wind gusts possible.

Storm survey results from NWS similar to my personal analysis from earlier...also showing a 2.5 mile swath of straight-line wind damage (microburst), peak winds 60-70 mph. CBS Sacramento

New T-storms developing along the outflow boundary from Sierra storms. Delta breeze moving into the Valley, approaching the area where multiple fires burning from lightning strikes. Erratic wind movement expected around the fire scene. New showers / t-storms possible in the

Oh yes! A typical day as a Meteorologist! 😂 Let me crank out derivations and plug in imaginary numbers to produce your high temperature forecast! While I hated these level of math getting my Atmospheric Science degree… I’m glad I did. It helps understand the why with

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