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Flash!
updated: Sep 03, 2012, 9:25 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

We saw a very bright white flash in the western sky at 8:44 PM tonight, Monday, here in Goleta. Does anyone know what it was? It was reminiscent of lightning to us...

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COMMENT 315815	2012-09-04 06:39 AM
We saw it too - off to the Southwest. Looked lie lightning.
MADMAX	2012-09-04 07:27 AM
I saw it driving to SB along coast highway in Ventura area. Lightning is what I suspect.
COMMENT 315838	2012-09-04 07:38 AM
Saw it from Gaviota as well. Looked to be beyond the Islands & due South. First thought was lightning, but it was the only flash all night.
COMMENT 315843	2012-09-04 07:48 AM
By the third flash, I figured it was lightening....
COMMENT 315879	2012-09-04 09:16 AM
Lightning for sure, I drove through a light thundershower in Camarillo coming home from LA .
COMMENT 315935	2012-09-04 11:21 AM
Remnants of a Baja Hurricane that pushed Northwest into colder air off shore and produced scattered thunderstorms in the area. The lightning you saw resulted from this weather event. Not uncommon from July to October in our area. One time I recall, in the 1970s, two hurricanes held together longer than usual and came further North resulting in over 7 inches of rain here in September mostly in the mountains. Produced some really strange events because it was still hot here and getting that much rain produced a cornicopia of botanic activity from flowers never seen to many fungi that had, no doubt, been laying dormant in the soil in the form of spores for decades.
COMMENT 316069P	2012-09-04 03:57 PM
935 - I remember that rainfall. September 76, I think. It poured!
COMMENT 316102	2012-09-04 05:17 PM
I caught two rounds of lightning on my way home from Buellton last night. I pulled over to try to catch it on camera, but they were about 30 minutes apart.

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