The BCWS map is also showing a handful of fire starts in remote regions of the Shuswap and Monashee Range.

The cause of that fire has not been determined yet, but it forced the evacuation of the provincial park as the fire first broke out. A lightning detection map shows in-cloud and cloud-to-ground pulses in real-time. A network of antennae are connected to a central processor that records the time, polarity, signal strength, and number of strokes of each cloud-to-ground lightning flash detected over the United States. The region has been spared from major wildfire activity so far this summer, with crews catching the handful of wildfires before they grew too large.Ī lightning-caused wildfire north of Vernon and West of Otter Lake that caused some evacuations on Friday is now held, and everyone has returned to their homes.Ī small fire near Ellison Provincial Park on Sunday is under control and extinguished. provides lightning and thunderstorm information in real-time on maps for USA, United Kingdom, Australia, new Zealand, Europa, Africa. Most of the valley bottoms in the Thompson-Okanagan are at a high or extreme danger rating. With no significant precipitation in sight, things will likely get worse before they get better,” he said on Twitter. “Given the drought and dry forests, there were 86 new fires on Sunday alone. lightning map will help you visualize just how many lightning strikes hit your area in 2019. thanks to consistent thunderstorms.īC Wildfire Service’s lead weather forecaster Matt MacDonald said on Sunday evening that 19,605 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes hit the province from Friday to Sunday. A network of antennae are connected to a central processor that records the time, polarity, signal strength, and number of strokes of each cloud-to-ground lightning flash detected over the United States. Several dozen new wildfires were sparked over the weekend in B.C.

Cloud to ground lightning map