“The North American Lightning Detection Network detected 710,177 lightning events across British Columbia and northwestern Alberta in about 15 hours, between 3 p.m. on June 30 and 6 a.m. on July 1.”
This was primarily driven by a pyrocumulonimbus enhanced thunderstorm complex.
Holy crap Batman!!
Northern Montana is getting quite the lightning storm right now
Fortunately also getting some rain
British Columbia is in serious trouble. This is very early for large wildfire activity and there is several expanding with many lightning holdovers becoming active.
since sitreprt.pdf is down, this site gives stats as of 7/6 for BC only
(1 hectare acre = 2.47 acres)
http://bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/Statistics.asp
Capt4711,
thanks. it was not up earlier today when I checked. glad it is back up and running.
Things are about to dry out for the next week so we will see what 112,000 cloud to ground lightning strikes does…
It appears that some of these fires are starting to awaken from holdover status. Worth watching as things begin to dry out again.
