August 2020 California lightning wildfires

When

2020

Kind

Wildfire

Coordinates

37.00° N, 120.00° W

Description

natural disaster in the United States

Date from

year in its name

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Natural disaster in the United States

A series of 650 wildfires ignited across Northern California in mid-August 2020, due to a siege of dry lightning from rare, massive summer thunderstorms, which were caused by an unusual combination of very hot, dry air at the surface, dry fuels, and advection of moisture from the remains of Tropical Storm Fausto northward into the Bay Area.

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