WHY is there lightning in Hermosa Beach, California right now if it is not raining?! It's freaky! help!?

Question

WHY is there lightning in Hermosa Beach, California right now if it is not raining?! It's freaky! help!?

Answer 1

I agree with KayCi.  The phenomina of falling rain that evaporates before reaching the ground is called 'VERGA'.  Lightening is always associated with a thunderstorm.  That thunderstorm may be too far away for the sound of thunder to reach you but you still see the lightening.  That is the other possibility.

*

Answer 2

Your experiencing a isolated thunder storm which will be coming up to where I live on Saturday. Don't worry it happened a few months ago!

Answer 3

I'm up in ventura county and the lightning just set off a whole block of car alarms!!!!! it is so awesome.  its pouring rain here though. i love lightning i even got a video of some on my phones camera.  

Answer 4

Because it's so dry in the west, thunderstorms form much higher in the sky, so high that when the rain falls it often evaporates before reaching the ground. But the lightning generated in the storm, the same way it does in any storm east or west, CAN reach the dry land below, even if the base of storm itself is two, three or more miles high. When lightning does strike, a fire is sparked but there's no rain falling to douse the flames. And this summer the unremitting heat dried the forests to the point were any spark, especially from dry lightning, could turn to a blaze in seconds.

Answer 5

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Rada...

dallas has radar (and we are having rain/thunder too)

Answer 6

i live in redondo beach and i haven't noticed anything but my friend in brentwood says there's a bunch of lightening, maybe i should go look

Answer 7

You are probably in a dry, warm climate, where electrical storm activity can occur at a very high altitude.  Any rain formed can evaporate before reaching the ground