For all intents and purposes the atmospheric configuration in the summer prevents cold Pacific storms coming this far south from the Gulf of Alaska during the summer. It essentially never rains but on the rare occasions when it does it’s because of a typhoon or tropical storm falling apart when it approaches the cold coastal waters Off Southern California or Baja, the storm’s energy thereafter streaming ashore. Tropical Storm Fausto is disintegrating 1000 miles southwest of San Francisco but spun off a spear of cloudiness that’s been streaming onshore for four days. Very little rain but lots of thunder and lightning. Very unusual circumstances. I can’t imagine how our infrastructure could have reasonable been prepared for this amount of activity.
The lightning and thunder were very unusual
I see it all the time when I’m back in New Jersey every single day but out here it’s very rare