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Thousands of lightning strikes in northern California

Lightning northern california

CAL FIRE distributed this map at about 3:30 p.m. PDT Tuesday, August 8 saying, “Northern California saw over 3,000 lightning strikes in the past 48 hours, with more predicted lightning on the way.”

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