Wildfire risk of the year. The wind is already picking up at this hour and gusts could reach 70 miles an hour in the highest elevations. Pg e is closely monitoring power lines and any trees that could knock them out. The entire bay area except San Francisco could be in the dark by the end of tonight. The first round of shutoffs are underway in parts of napa and sonoma counties. In less than an hour residents in marin could lose power and the shutoffs are expected to sweep across a large portion of the east bay and the peninsula. The threat of powerful gusts once the sun goes down. Yeah. The wind is already picking up and our red flag warning is already in effect. I guess well go to darren first. Paul, i know youll focus heavily on the red flag warning. In fact, i could do that first. The red flag warning has been extended. It start tonight and it will take us through the remainder of this evening and into tuesday. Read the details on the bottom lefthand corner. Extreme fire weather bay
Now the red flag warnings will be continued for these areas through 5 00 on tuesday. The winds arent going to be as strong, but they will still be gusty. The humidity be very low to the north bay mountains, thats where we are talking about the red flag warning through tuesday evening and we have wind advisory that is in effect for the entire bay area through 11 00 tomorrow morning. Even if youre in a spot that doesnt have a high fire threat, youll still need to prepare for the potential of Power Outages as whole trees could get knocked down by those winds. Darren has a closer look at that part of the bay area. Yeah, paul, this is not going to hit the bay area equally. Itll hit some places harder than others. John ramos is in the Berkeley Hills talking about preevaccuations there for a reason. Well be showing you why the Berkeley Hills are one of the places that really need to take this seriously. Well come in for a close up look now. The week hasnt kicked in at this point, but once we
The were still to come tonight breeze. Uh yes, certainly so just seeing right now were seeing the worst over the north bay mountains, specifically the valleys as well. Relative humidity in the Single Digits and lets take a look at current wind speeds out there right now we are noticing a shift and change in that wind pattern, especially along the coast where we are tracking along our coastal areas winds finally arriving for those of you in downtown San Francisco sustained out of the north at 20 Miles Per Hour and were noticing gusts along the coast in the north a 30 mile per hour sustained wind speeds with gusts in that 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour range right now so finally starting to see that shift from that sea breeze in downtown San Francisco, turning more of an offshore wind with those wines right now 21 Miles Per Hour sustained, so we are going to notice this continue during the overnight hours through your monday morning, the peak of the winds happening right now for those of you in
Heavily affected by all of this as well as parts of the south bay. Lets take a look from our San Bruno Mountain camera. You can see it is shaking. Wind speeds have picked up throughout the night. Theyre expected to get even gus gustier. Rob maeda a covering the story for us. These are the conditions we were worried about. Strong winds on the increase and humidity levels starting to drop down. Walnut creek 16 humidity sustained winds at 20 Miles Per Hour. Livermore humidity 10 winds down to 15. Were starting to see some of the wind spilling into oakland. 31 Miles Per Hour, sustained winds there. You can see the winds picking up in San Francisco. But at the top of the list, 84 mile per hour gusts up at Mount Saint Helena. It is the north bay seeing the worst of it now. The transition over the last six hours, some of the dryer air sweeping offshore at the golden gate bridge. You can see it there. The reason we have the wind advisory up through 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow, gusts of 45 to 60 Miles
Heavily affected by all of this as well as parts of the south bay. Lets take a look from our San Bruno Mountain camera. You can see it is shaking. Wind speeds have picked up throughout the night. Theyre expected to get even gus gustier. Rob maeda a covering the story for us. These are the conditions we were worried about. Strong winds on the increase and humidity levels starting to drop down. Walnut creek 16 humidity sustained winds at 20 Miles Per Hour. Livermore humidity 10 winds down to 15. Were starting to see some of the wind spilling into oakland. 31 Miles Per Hour, sustained winds there. You can see the winds picking up in San Francisco. But at the top of the list, 84 mile per hour gusts up at Mount Saint Helena. It is the north bay seeing the worst of it now. The transition over the last six hours, some of the dryer air sweeping offshore at the golden gate bridge. You can see it there. The reason we have the wind advisory up through 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow, gusts of 45 to 60 Miles