SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- More than a thousand fires were sparked by dry lightning early this week with several significant blazes breaking out in California. Dry lightning proved to be a major issue in ...

San Luis Obispo County was under a red flag warning through 9 p.m. Saturday as possible thunderstorms created a threat for dry lightning, according to the National Weather Service. Meanwhile, two ...

Warmer-than-average high temps continue to grip the mountains and interior areas of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties but the extreme temperatures are starting to wane. Today, the ...

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An unusual weather pattern for July is bringing a chance of dry lightning and scattered showers to parts of Southern California this weekend, which has raised the risk for fire starts, flash flooding ...

Unseasonably hot weather was baking parts of the Bay Area for a third consecutive day on Wednesday, raising fire weather concerns ahead of a major change in conditions, forecasters said. The National ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Since June, there have been 100 human-caused wildfires on national forests and grasslands in Oregon and Washington, Forest Service officials said Thursday. While firefighters ...

A massive electrical storm swept in to south-western Victoria at midnight. It felt like the prophecy of a day of catastrophe ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the ...