[pgkdan]

More than 800 wildfires started in a single day in California this past weekend, as the result of an 'unprecedented' lightning storm of a type called "dry lightning."

This is a joke right? Surely this fellow doesn't think that dry lightning is unprecedented?

[Tennessee Nana]

More than 800 wildfires started in a single day in California this past weekend, as the result of an ‘unprecedented’ lightning storm of a type called “dry lightning.”

This is a joke right? Surely this fellow doesn’t think that dry lightning is unprecedented?
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I saw “dry lightning” 40 years ago in Sydney, Australia...

No rain..just huge forks of lightning..