Bay Area residents near the water saw something familiar when the sun rose Wednesday morning — a fairly heavy level of coastal fog that was generating a cool breeze moving in from the ocean.
By Tuesday night, most of that lightning in the Bay Area had moved out, Murdock said. He added that the region didn’t record any air-to-ground strikes, nor any reports of cloud-to-cloud flashes. Cal Fire investigators said they will try to determine whether the lightning strikes in the state on Monday and Tuesday contributed to or helped to start some of the wildfires that were burning early Wednesday.
The fire was renamed Wednesday. Those fires originally were dubbed individually as the Hog, Flash and Bolt fires.Crews have gained 98% containment on the Aero Fire in Calaveras County, which as burned 5,285 acres, according to Cal Fire. And the Post Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura counties was 90% contained. It has burned 15,563 acres .