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Remainder of Night Calls for 'Deadly Lightning'

One-third of an inch of rain has fallen in the last 10-1/2 hours. Thunderstorms and 'deadly lightning' in the forecast.

Over the last 10-1/2 hours, Rancho Santa Margarita has received more than one-third of an inch of rain from the back end of this current storm.

Precipitation of 0.33 of an inch has fallen since 10 a.m., giving a rainfall total of 0.48 for this storm as of 8:30 p.m., according to The Weather Channel.

Temperatures are expected to drop to 40 degrees tonight.

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Scattered showers with light to moderate rainfall are expected to move through the area until 11 p.m., with brief heavy showers and "isolated thunderstorms and deadly lightning."

Really, the forecast calls for deadly lightning.

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Sunday should be partly cloudy.


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