Greater numbers. Thanks for joining us everybody on kron 4 news at 5 im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thousands of people all across the state of california. Or in the dark tonight pg and e has turned off the power in parts of 24 counties, including several right here in the bay area all in the name of preventing wildfires that is the goal, heres a look at pg and es latest outage map showing the areas experiencing these preemptive power shut off the purple indicates places that are without power tonight because of these intentional shut down to see parts of napa sonoma and solano counties and then further south portions of the Oakland Hills are affected as are customers east of 6. 80 there further south theyre talking about the south bay and parts of the peninsula, a vast area here of people dealing with this unwelcome roller coaster. We have Team Coverage tonight kron fours dan kerman is in the napa valley where thousands of people are still without electricity and kron fours rob
Is a big a big hassle now we have to go through all of this. Now its 6 another night of no power for thousands of pg and e customers as the villa tea Company Continues its second night of planned Power Outages because of the high temperatures. Strong winds low humidity leading to high fire danger. Right now we are under red flag warning that last until 11 00am tomorrow morning and heat advisory is in effect until 9 oclock tonight. Thanks for joining us tonight, everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus according to the utility that shut off is forecasted to affect about 53,000 customers. Over at least 24 counties in california take a look this is the latest pg and e outage map the areas highlighted in yellow are impacted actually the areas in pink are impacted. Yellow and green just indicates regular outages for a variety of reasons but were talking about here this preemptive shut off that is the pinkish purple you see right there parts of the peninsula. The south bay. Parts of t
Is actually familiar across a lot of the bay area tonight as many pg and e customers are bracing now for a 3rd day without power. Thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne pg needed start restoring power to some neighborhoods tonight, well bring you the latest on the shut offs in a moment, but first. Lets check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow on the when and the heat or yet were not done with the win check in effect. Today we had some very impressive gusts around the bay area 65 mile an hour gust reported. Mount st. Louis that was early on in the morning, 57 mile an hour gust amount the album in the Santa Cruz Mountains 53 Miles Per Hour 52 healdsburg Oakland Hills almost 40 mile an hour gusts. Thats where were seen over the mountain tops especially not as windy down below, but certainly concerning as youve got very dry conditions youve got the hot temperatures record heat in place today and you got those strong offshore Winds Continuing to blow in f
Toward big sur where they are just getting pummeled you see all that rain coming in there right now the core low still spinning off the coastline and that means were going to see wave after wave of Energy Rolling off coastline and pump into california right in the bay area that is going to keep things going very wet on and off throughout the night tonight. And well into tomorrow as well you see the rain though a fairly light scattered showers around much of the bay area but head further south its a different story in fact that rain really has been coming down to the moderate base limits gilroy and into the Santa Cruz Mountains, when morgan hill youre just getting pummeled right now with some very heavy rainfall. Some of the rain rates over the mountain tops there were looking at over 3 inches per hour that is a flooding type of rain that youre going to get in there you go over 3 almost 4 inches of rain per hour with that cell thats moving through there that has been a slow mover indeed
Bridges, conditions definitely slick out there. Im allen martin and for kent. Im elizabeth cook. Live in coverage right now in the kpix 5 news, d streaming on cbsn bay area. Hagan, the south bay has been getting pounded this evening. Especially into the santa clara valley. There is rain into the valley once again, it is just not as intense as what we had last night period the wind is not as strong either period showers for the north bay right now, that is light activity, the heaviest rain has been further ts zoom in for a closer look at that and show you what we are looking at on high death doppler. Light showers, the rain has tapered off a bit, the heaviest rain indicated by yellows and oranges has been getting nudged a bit further to the east over the past 45 minutes or so. A hopeful sign is that we have seen a tapering trance to showers in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Here is where the heaviest rain is falling right now, just under half an inch per hour. That number is lower than it wa