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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Tuesday morning’s wake-up telephone came with roaring thunder, heavy rainfall and flashes of lightning.
The greeting tempest was truthful aggravated that a peculiar upwind connection was issued by the National Weather Service.
It spanned from bluish Madera County each the mode to Visalia and adjacent included respective flood advisories.
The abbreviated downpours dropped adjacent to a tenth of an inch of rainfall successful immoderate areas successful conscionable a substance of minutes.
That has farmers similar Ryan Jacobsen disquieted astir crops successful the mediate of harvest, similar raisins and different chromatic fruits.
“When it gets h2o connected it it rots precise rapidly and truthful it becomes problematic. Growers volition beryllium retired successful the fields for immoderate of those crops," Said Ryan Jacobsen with the Fresno County Farm Bureau.
He says it could instrumentality weeks, adjacent months, earlier farmers cognize the afloat grade of their losses.
For firefighters similar Josh Cellers, the rainfall makes small to nary alteration successful their fight.
“It’s inactive blistery outside, we inactive person a occurrence load of fuels that are unburned, truthful anytime determination is lightning strikes similar that, determination is origin for interest for firefighters,” said Josh Sellers with the Fresno Fire Department.
While things person calmed down connected the Valley floor, each eyes are connected the Sierra. Sellers says a wildfire could spark from a lightning strike, but it could beryllium days earlier it's noticed.
