Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Did you see it or hear it . Thunder and lightning here in San Francisco and across the bay area. Rumbling in the north bay,va, p widespread wildfires. Flashing across the night sky in the east bay, lighting up the oakland skyline. Streaking across the south bay where its blamed for sparking on apartment fire. As someone who grew up on midwestern thunderstorms, it was both intense and unusual here. Yeah, eric. You got that right. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma joining us now. Right away with what to expect because, drew, this has been wild weekend of weather. Yeah. Certainly this morning is a morning a lot of us are not going to forget anytime soon. Hundreds of lightning strikes lighting up the morning sky earlier today. Live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you the bay area was basically the bullseye for all of the storm activity. Right now the current lightning strikes are in the sierra. But what is h
South. It is applying a lot of moisture and sending it to Northern California. When it interacts with the heat, it creates the thunderstorms and that will likely happen again overnight tonight. The red flag warning does continue until early tomorrow morning for the threat of more. Well go hour by hour and show you the best chance of finding the storms tomorrow and the heat wave continuing. All right, thanks. Now to developing news on all the problems caused by that severe storm. It knocked out power to thousands. But first to the fires including this one in san jose. Fire crews say line started a fire at a sixunit apartment compx. One person was burned out but no one was hurt. Abc7 News Reporter cornell bernard where there was a grass fire. One has now grown to 300 acres. A fierce summer storm packed a punch overnight bringing this. A nonstop line show to all parts of the bay area. Amazing to see but firefighters say all that lightning combined with extreme heat sparked multiple fires.