Post by erik on Oct 5, 2021 12:44:36 GMT -5
For those who might not know, we were hit in Southern California yesterday afternoon and evening by some fairly hair-raising weather last night. Violent thunderstorms caused by a sub-tropical low pressure center off of Baja moved through the L.A. metro area last night, creating on the one hand some fairly welcome (albeit occasionally torrential) rain, with occasional wind gusts and hail, but also thousands and thousands of lightning strikes all over the place. Numerous palm trees were struck, causing them to go up in flames. According to the National Weather Service, we had as many as four thousand lightning strikes overall in the L.A. area.
Even stranger is the fact that last night's Monday Night Football game between the Las Vegas Raiders and the Los Angeles Chargers at Inglewood's Sofi Stadium was actually delayed half an hour because of the lightning strikes in the area. One would have thought this wouldn't be a problem because Sofi, which is home to both the Rams and the Chargers, is largely a domed stadium. But the upper deck on the north side actually opens up to the outside, allowing breezes to come in; and unfortunately, it leaves anyone sitting in that part of the stadium exposed to not only the wind, but lightning as well (ironically, it is a lightning bolt that serves as the Chargers' logo!).
Even stranger is the fact that last night's Monday Night Football game between the Las Vegas Raiders and the Los Angeles Chargers at Inglewood's Sofi Stadium was actually delayed half an hour because of the lightning strikes in the area. One would have thought this wouldn't be a problem because Sofi, which is home to both the Rams and the Chargers, is largely a domed stadium. But the upper deck on the north side actually opens up to the outside, allowing breezes to come in; and unfortunately, it leaves anyone sitting in that part of the stadium exposed to not only the wind, but lightning as well (ironically, it is a lightning bolt that serves as the Chargers' logo!).