San Francisco: The storm that dropped light rain gave some breathing space to the crew who struggled to satisfy California’s large forest fires but lightning triggered several new Blaz in the north which was hit by drought, said fire officials.
The storm rolled on Thursday night on Friday was followed by a bright weather weekend estimate and heating trend in the fire area to next week.
National weather services said there were more than 1,100 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in California between Thursday night and Friday morning.
API official said lightning strikes ignited at least 17 fires.
Firefighters were diverted from the South Caldor Huge Fire Lake Tahoe to fight some last night lightning fires in all El Dorado Regency, the fire said.
However, most Blazes are stored under 10 hectares (4 hectares).
Three new fire was reported in Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon in a steep and dense forest area in Sierra Nevada.
“Fire management officials in Taman believe fires have spread potential and can influence operations within a few days or weeks, ” ‘statement from the park warned.
Up to half an inch of rain down on the parts of the Dixie fire, which began in mid-July and has burned the Great Match of Sierra Nevada North and South Cascades.
The second largest fire in the history of California has burned 1,490 square miles (3,859 square kilometers) land and more than 1,300 homes and other buildings.
It’s 59% contained.
Rain-dry-dry vegetation and will cool fire for one or two days, which firefighters expected to strengthen and expand the fire line in an end to an effort to surround the flames, said API officials.
However, after a clear sky weekend and light wind, high pressure ridge can bring heating trends until next week, Jack Mogick, medical meteorology for fires, said Friday night.
Rain slows down from fire but “ so the sun handles it, the wind blows, will eventually take it again and dries enough and it will start running again, “Tony Brownell said, an operation.
Head of Section with the Ministry of Forestry and California fire protection.
The threat of a new fire that triggered lightning came because more than 13,000 firefighters worked to control 13 major fires and more than 12,000 residents were still waiting to return to houses evacuated, according to state institutions.
Caldor Fire, which at its peak forced 22,000 people to evacuate South Lake Tahoe and the area near Nevada State Line, 53% contained after burning more than 341 square miles (883 square kilometers) and destroyed more than 1,000 structures, including hundreds of.
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Lightning flash can have disaster results in dry California.
The number of land records last year which was burned including a large northern California fire which was turned on when the remnants of tropical storms released thousands of bolts.
Historical droughts and hot waves recently related to climate change have made forest fires more difficult to fight in West America.
Scientists say climate change has made the area much warmer and more dried in the last 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and forest fires more often and destructive.
President Joe Biden will survey the damage to the fire while visiting California next week where he will also campaign for Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who faces memory selection on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Cal Fire, announced that the fire that destroyed 142 structures in Sierra last month was human-caused but the investigator was still working in details.
River Fire Starting August 4 at the Placer County Campsite and contained August 13.