I ve been seeing a LOT of Heat Lightning here Looking West towards the Pacific in Marin County in coastal Northern California
Ive never seen heat lightning since I left the midwest forty years ago!!
Yeah, it’s been hot and humid with a lot of lightning strikes tonight.
I’m in Marin County as well and my window faces West so between watching the Giants lose again and playing on the Computer, I’ve been seeing the flashes out the window.
If you know this, disregard, but heat lightning is just lightning off in the distance. It’s still a thunderstorm...you just can’t hear the thunder because its so far away. It has nothing to do with heat. It gets its name because you see the flash and its usually clear where you are and hot....but where the lightning is...you can bet there is thunder and rain (unless its in the desert and its evaporating).