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
Counties been approved to reopen, but most bay area counties are holding back. Kron fours justine waltman live in the newsroom with todays developments justine well can the now. The governor today means that some counties in california can allow clients to book appointments once again. But it will be done on a county by county basis. So in the bay area, San Francisco santa clara san Mateo Alameda contra costa and marine counties are not part of this face but Solano Sonoma and napa counties are ready. The owner of shine hair salon and napa county tells us here kron 4 her employees have been preparing for this moment. Were going to have to do no double booking for a while and i think this has been kind of play out in other states right now. Because normally we would set our guest the site in year one of the waiting areas and so that probably is not going to be a reality for a while. In order to reopen all stylists and customers must wear a face covering. And then physically distance from
Do have up some cloudy skies over timber on there have been some areas of a light shower activity lingering right around the marin headlands. But even that has been really minimal as of this point radar showing that little bit of green out there you are running into some slick spots on one oh one is one oh one up in marin and sonoma counties has seen the greatest amount of rain so far today which really still up to this point hasnt been a whole lot light sprinkles up in Sonoma County currently its really spotty nothing really to know too much at this moment later today after 01 00pm especially is when we see the slight to moderate shower activity really settling into the bay and youll notice that rainfall is seen especially right along the coastline, but al into the east bay, the north bay and even down into the south bay it will be our inland valley areas that see the least amount of it just a couple of sprinkles for areas like the eastern edge of the tri valley showers continue on th
As these low clouds do push in across the bay this morning visibility as you can see here on our visibility map isnt really affected. So your drive on into work this morning or to take those kids on in the school should be just fine besides obviously traffic issues that you may encounter, but more traffic out the now that people are back out for school, 60s 70s, and 80s for todays daytime highs are last day with seasonable conditions in those aboriginal and highs in the 80s, ive got more info on that warm up that we do have just around the corner still to come stay with us well john speaking of warming up right now its starting to warm up a little bit at the bay bridge just during your weather hit. It went up from 10 minutes to 12 minutes if you need to go from the macarthur maze across the span and down into San Francisco. 12 minutes, good thing is at least the wheels are rolling, but we expect its a start to stack up as the morning commute starts to build up 12 minutes also hayward t