June 4

Rare Early June Thunderstorms

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It was a rare event for early June. Dark skies, thunderstorms, cooler temperatures, and some rain mainly west of the valley. Here’s some information and a map showing the total number of lightning strikes as the results of this unstable air mass…

RAINFALL STORM TOTAL SUMMARY…PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
530 AM PDT [...]

June 3

Local Storm Reports 6/3/09

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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT…CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
1001 PM PDT WED JUN 03 2009

..TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON…
..DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE….
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July 26

Valley Lightning Show

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Here are some photos I took, and a corresponding radar image at the height of its intensity, from last night’s late evening pop up thunderstorm north of I-10 between Thousand Palms and Indio. Check out the photo gallery for the whole collection

Composite radar image at 11:05pm 7/25/07