49 yrs. in the L.A. basin & this reporter hasn't seen lightning more than two or three times. There's a reason:A woman and her two dogs were fatally struck by lightning in Pico Rivera Wednesday as a storm front pushed across the Southland and led to power outages and beach closures.
Buncha scientific mumbo jumbo about high pressure, the result of which is June gloom rather than thunder & lightning.So after nearly a decade living on the West Coast, I’ve trained myself against getting my hopes up for Real Weather: That rumble outside my window is likely just a dumpster rolling downhill, a firework booming across town or the sound of my dreams collapsing like an oil drum under a tank.On Wednesday, to my glee, I was wrong: a series of storms rolled through Southern California, bringing actual thunder and lightning to my adopted home. I was so excited that I more-than-half-seriously pitched my editors a story entitled, “So You’ve Never Heard Thunder Before. Don’t Worry — I’m From A Place With Real Weather, And I’m Here To Help.”
They nixed the headline, but they were curious too: Why do we get so little lightning and thunder in L.A.?
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