Burned so far. The night sky in the north bay lit by an ar roing glow. Flames tearing through the rugged terrain. Conditions are extremely dry. The winds continue to fan the flames. Thousands of people under evacuation orders in napa and sonoma. Lets bring in rob now who is tracking everything for us. Rob . At the very latest, very challenging conditions. What is unique about the situation tonight is this area has not burned, considering its a narrow wedge between the tub fire and the nunn fire. Lets show you the conditions again. Somewhat dry as you see. Numbers in the 90s still with some gusty winds at times, up to 25 miles an hour. Humidity down to about 15 . And you can see the area. It is beginning to impact there. This is the urban wild fire interface as we sometimes refer to there. These blue areas are structures in the populated areas. You can see the shady fire in that zone of unburned terrain to the southeast of the tub fire and to the north of the none fire burn scar from a
Alcohol. The board of supervisors are expected to give final approval meaning if the smoke is to that later today. Bothering you or if you have breathing problems you may still need to limit your time outside today. Other than that we are looking limited restaurants and give them the opportunity to apply at improvements today as our for liquor licenses which will temperatures head to the 60s near the coast and some upper be good for months. 80s inland. New streets that are closing mike, how is it looking for the are in and around the downtown drive . Area. The map will show you they are 13th, washington, highway 85 circled around telegraph and west webster. Winchester. A twocar crash. No injuries reported. All social distancing rules well track that. Still apply if youre heading out there. Happening today leaders in a nice easy drive at 5 01. San jose plan to vote on millions of dollars to help no delays through contra costa people during the pandemic. County. Back to you. If approved
Flag warning was extended through monday, triple digits extend into monday and possibly even into tuesday. Overall, though, what were dealing with today is going to be the gusty offshore winds, low humidity, and those hot temperatures. So Current Conditions right now humidity tends to recover overnight but a live look over san jose. You can see were starting out hazy and there is a spare the air alert. Yesterday was an air quality advisory. The bay area district decided to go ahead and update that, now turning that to a spare the air alert. So ill have more details on what were monitoring, what were expecting and how hot well get coming up in my full forecast. Well see you in 15. Thanks so much. Now to the breaking news i was mentioning out of napa county this morning where there are mandatory evacuations because of a wildfire. Cal fire says theyre dealing with a dangerous rate of spread. The mandatory evacuations are along the silverado trail, deer park road to the south to larkmead l
Bay area. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus but the man we really need to know is our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow because if this weather is going to stick around lawrence tells us going to get that yeah i think its going to get better just going to be slow going this is going to be just slowly. Stay. I think we saw some improvement up above we had some mix in the atmosphere bit. Little more sunshine pop up in spots still some very poor air quality no getting around it that sits there tonight you can see up toward sfo you see the light you see all the smoke down below and as we look toward the Golden Gate Bridge weve got some fog rolling on shore thats good. Unfortunately. It just kind of a thin marine layer so there again nice pressure off the ocean but that is just mixing with some of the smoke out there as well and theyre just so small so much smoke around right now back weve got some very poor air quality in quite rapidly in fact last hour it was all across the bay into
Visits to the respiratory urgent care center. Now at 10 wildfires continue to rage up and down the west coast leading to some of the worst air quality on the planet. Right now right here in the bay area, thank you for joining us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis a thick blanket of smoke has been hovering over the bay area for days now making it. Hard to breathe unhealthy to be outside. This is what many people experienced today. And unfortunately that smoke is expected to linger right on through the weekend chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us live as we went from orange on wednesday to gray worse today and the air quality really deteriorated as the week progressed, yeah, you know all that smoke from up above all the orange skies. That all makes down to the surface down thats where we sit we dont have a real way to get out of town unless were to get a storm. Good wind event to start to mix that out were not even seeing the heating that we normally see