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Show Lightning Strikes Hit Garfield Area Southwesterly to northeasterly winds combined to bring heavy clouds, heavy rains in spots, and an amazing 2,020 lightning strikes in Garfield, the eastern tip of Iron and the northerly edge of Kane counties said Julie Dodds, Powell District, Dixie National Forest, weather observer. ob-server. Panguitch took the brunt of the .storm which held the area captive from 9:30 p.m. Monday until 3 0i"a.m. Tuesday morning. ' Hot dry air carrying charged parotides par-otides often collide with cool ocean air causing friction which in turn causes some forms of lightning. Monday's and Tuesday's display exhibited both heat (or sheet) lightning in addition to old-fash- 1 ioned bolt lightning. Many Panguitch residents said they expected to wake and find half the town demolished. Although some trees split and some wires were down, no major damage was reported at press time. |
