Sentence examples for dry lightning from inspiring English sources

Dry lightning flashed on the horizon.

And it is subject to dry lightning -- electrical storms without rain.

Then there was the startlingly new phenomenon of widespread dry lightning storms.

I stood in the courtyard of the field office and watched the flash of cannon, like dry lightning, in the distance.

"There's a monsoonal influence that's bringing the possibility of thunderstorms, which could bring dry lightning," said Karen Guillemin, a fire prevention specialist with the California Department of Forestry.

Forecasters predicted more thunderstorms and dry lightning through the weekend, similar to the ones that ignited hundreds of fires across Northern California a week ago.

Since last weekend, temperatures soared to triple digits, there were eight Red Flag Warning days in a row indicating high growth potential for fires and several dry or near-dry lightning storms that sparked new blazes.

Authorities are worried that thunderstorms forecast for the weekend could trigger dry-lightning strikes and more blazes.

Much of the California acreage burned in early summer, when an unusually fierce dry-lightning storm sparked more than 2,000 wildfires from Monterey County to the Oregon border.

"Excessive-heat warnings have been issued, more dry-lightning strikes are expected, our resources are stretched to the breaking point, and the state remains tinder-dry". The Butte County fire spreading through areas near Paradise, north of Sacramento, came within two miles of Paradise's Feather River Hospital.

Officials at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, said hot, dry weather, lightning without rain and a spate of new fires were taxing firefighting capacity throughout the region.