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So this is news because lighting is so rare there, it’s literally ‘once in a lifetime’!? I couldn’t figure out why this was here :) It is kind of weird to see t
by 40four 6y ago
So this is news because lighting is so rare there, it’s literally ‘once in a lifetime’!? I couldn’t figure out why this was here :) It is kind of weird to see this kind of reaction, to those of us in most other parts of the country.
Edit: I didn’t really appreciate the drought conditions, let’s hope the wildfires don’t get bad.
- noncoml 6y ago100% agree. In many other places in the world this would be just Sunday. HN is so SF Bay centric sometimes
- verst 6y agoA good reminder that technology opinions here too only represent the tip of the iceberg of the software engineering world and hardly are representative of the industry at large.
- secondcoming 6y agoIndeed, 'Silicon Valley Privilege' is a thing
- trimbo 6y ago> HN is so SF Bay centric sometimes Given that 21% of global VC money is pumped into the Bay Area[1], that seems like a pretty natural thing. [1] - (Through 2017 though): https://hbr.org/2018/11/how-the-geography-of-startups-and-innovation-is-changing https://hbr.org/2018/11/how-the-geography-of-startups-and-in...
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- kurthr 6y agoThere was lightning and thunder (and hail depending on where you were) in the last year and even big summer across the sky lightning events like this in the last 5-7 [actually 8]years (I was on an airplane landing at SFO for it). It's just not common, and 100+ temperatures aren't common so together it's pretty weird. If it was the US central plains, it would be Tuesday during every summer month. [Edit It was 2012:] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Thunder-lightning-could-hit-Bay-Area-in-weekend-15303095.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Thunder-lightnin...
- btilly 6y agoTell me any part of the country where it wouldn't be news to have months of essentially no rain, followed by 1200 lightning strikes, still with very little rain. The issue isn't simply the lightning (that would be rare in the Bay area). It is the lightning combined with drought conditions making wildfires a major issue.
- 40four 6y agoI really hope the fires don’t get too bad. I was unaware of the drought conditions. I remember at the end of 2016 in the southeast where I am, we were in the midst of a severe, multi-year drought. Wildfires started popping up everywhere, causing lots of damage/ deaths. It was very strange, the atmosphere was ‘foggy’ from the smoke for weeks. Praying for rain!
- btilly 6y agoHeh. Your idea of a "severe, multi-year drought" is California's idea of "string of unusually wet years". It is all a question of perspective. (And what we call drought, well...)
- Thorrez 6y agoNot to mention weather so hot it caused the first state-wide emergency rolling blackouts in 19 years.
- frank2 6y agoIt was not any hotter than it gets most years. What has changed is probably that California's ability to govern itself has declined to such an extent that it cannot consistently keep the electricity flowing.
- Thorrez 6y ago> As of 4:30 p.m., at least five cities had logged record highs, according to the weather service. Among the hottest of those spots was San Jose, which saw a high of 101, breaking last year’s mark of 98. > Temperatures soared to 98 degrees in Oakland, breaking last year’s mark of 90; 96 degrees in Salinas, breaking the 1984 mark of 84; 96 degrees in Richmond, breaking last year’s mark of 90 degrees; and 95 degrees in downtown San Francisco, breaking the 1995 mark of 86. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/14/bay-area-heat-wave-arrives-record-temperatures-expected/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/14/bay-area-heat-wave-ar...
- SubiculumCode 6y agoWe are in the middle of a 110 degree heat wave which was briefly interrupted by a series of lightning storms and rain.
- Fishysoup 6y agoI think it was the unpredictable turns in weather.
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