{"id":9403,"date":"2020-08-16T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T20:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2020-08-22T06:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T14:21:20","slug":"san-francisco-bay-area-thunderstorms-heat-wave-lightning-strike-fire-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2020\/08\/16\/san-francisco-bay-area-thunderstorms-heat-wave-lightning-strike-fire-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Bay Area Thunderstorms – Heat Wave – Lightning Strike Fire & Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if 2020 hasn’t been an interesting enough year, the San Francisco Bay Area is in the midst of a record setting heat wave. What normally doesn’t happen during a heat wave in this region are thunderstorms, with lightning strikes that cause a fire, and of course a full rainbow to add to nature’s display. Further information about this fire indicates is part of the Deer Zone fires, which are 4 fires\u00a0 Southwest of Brentwood, that have burned 400 acres by 10 pm local time with 0% containment.<\/p>\n

\"Lightning<\/p>\n

The winds shifted and the fire in the East Bay hills started climbing back up the mountain.<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/p>\n

The unusual weather started the day before with a blood red sunset.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

After the dark lightning clouds passed over, the sunrise featured interesting colors.<\/p>\n

\"Full<\/p>\n

Since this day would include a little bit of everything, there was of course a full rainbow.<\/p>\n

\"Sunlight<\/p>\n

Then the sun popped out, and shown on these trees with the very dark thunderclouds in the background.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The smoke from a lighting strike fire looking interesting against the dark thunderclouds. At the time, I didn’t know there was a fire, so I was off to investigate.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A wider shot of the lightning strike fire that the early morning thunderstorms caused.<\/p>\n

\"Orange<\/p>\n

By noontime things were back to relative normal as this butterfly takes a break during the record breaking heat wave.<\/p>\n

August 20, 2020 Update<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fires known as the Deer Zones fires became part of a larger cluster of fires Cal Fire calls the “SCU Lightning Complex which include 20 separate fires. The latest information I was able to dig up said the Deer Zones fires burned about 1500 acres. There had been an evacuation order involved with those fires. That order was ended on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"Smokey
\nThis image which was taken near sunset on Aug. 20th, shows two pigeons resting on a street light with the very smoke filled sky turning the setting sun orange and red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As if 2020 hasn’t been an interesting enough year, the San Francisco Bay Area is in the midst of a record setting heat wave. What normally doesn’t happen during a heat wave in this region are thunderstorms, with lightning strikes that cause a fire, and of course a full rainbow to add to nature’s display. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[39,4,3],"tags":[161,2353,2848,2702,2847,2849],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9428,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/9428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}