Per hour would be in the Higher Elevations. So you got to get up to the mountains, 2,000, 3,000 feet up to see those top gusts. Theres a big contrast between what were feeling at the lower elevation to whats happening in the mountains. So the red flag fire warning right now for the northeast and south bay. For these on and off mountain gusts of 30 to 50 miles per hour. Sustained winds, 10 to 20. So no big change on this forecast. Im still pinning the best possibility of these higher gusts right here over portions of the north bay, the mountains near calistoga, saint helena and also for napa. So through tonight as we hit 11 00, youll see the zone here. The strongest winds in the red to magenta color just outside of napa and calistoga. All of this new fire danger comes on top of what has already been a recordsetting year. So far 4 million acres burned this year alone. Ill take a look more at that extended forecast coming up in about 18 minutes. All right. See you soon. Thanks so much, je
It certainly has felt that way. Thank you, jeff. Pg e says the power will start going out in parts of napa and sonoma counties as early as 6 00 p. M. And could stay off for days. Heres a look at the planned outages across the bay area. More than 22,000 customers in total. Heres a braekds of outages by county. Napa is expected to have more than 9,000 customers without power including much of calistoga. Alameda county will have 5,300 customers without power, a majority in the Oakland Hills. Santa clara county will have more than 2,000 customers in the dark, including in the santa cruz mountains. Pg e says it will provide an update at 6 00 p. M. Tonight. Well be monitoring that News Conference and pass along any new information. So as people across the bay area start to prepare for the possibility of two scorching days in the dark, fire crews in the Oakland Hills are patrolling an area around the clock. Nbc bay areas melissa colorado joins us live with more on the work being done. The Oak
East bay will be windy at times maybe some gusts over 30 Miles Per Hour down below the 4050 up above already started to see a change in the winds and youll see numbers running in the 2030 mile an hour range across the north bay mountains right now the 31 right now that lets be 33 so discreet 27 spanish flat, so these winds start to ramp up and then notice the direction too coming out of a northerly direction that is that very dry hot wind now developing looks like it will intensify overnight tonight. You see all the color of the Central Valley start to see the winds picking up already. This is going to kind of settle in overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. So you can see a lot of colors, the red even some purple beginning to show up those are gusts over 40 maybe 50 Miles Per Hour. Now as we head to the middle of the day tomorrow love the winds are going to move a little further to the south so stay blustery in the north bay, but i think picking up in places like the oakland h
Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa
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