Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the National Lightning Detection Network detected more than 25,000 total lightning events across California.

Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist with the company Vaisala that maps lightning strikes around in the world, said on Twitter on Wednesday evening that total of 54,329 lightning events were detected across California for UTC day June 22.

"The most in a single day since September 8, 2017, when 56,059 were detected," Vagasky said.

Vagasky told SFGATE: "Astonishingly, this lightning from the last 24 hours is almost 9% of the total lightning detected in California in 2020 and 2021 combined.".

A total of 54,329 lightning events detected across California.

A push of monsoonal moisture that moved into Southern California, the Central Valley and the southern Sierra Nevada on Wednesday morning triggered thunderstorms that threw tens of thousands of lightning strikes and caused one death and one injury.

Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist with the company Vaisala, which maps lightning strikes around in the world, said on Twitter the North American Lightning Detection Network detected 25,000 strikes between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. .

Vagasky said this number puts the event in the top 2% of daily California lightning totals. .

The National Weather Service reported thunderstorms and lightning strikes across Southern California and the southern Central Valley on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

"This is creating southerly flow from the Pacific into southern California, bringing sufficient moisture and instability into the region for thunderstorm development, when the air begins to interact with the California terrain," Vagasky said