Seeing in gold on this map is actually advisories that will be in effect later this weekend starting sunday at 11 00am and lasting through monday at 11 00am the issue here is stronger winds and weve seen in weeks now and maybe one of the strongest winds events of the year so far up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour. So we are going to be seeing. Some conditions that are not looking necessarily ideal come the latter part of the weekend meaning you should just enjoy today and tomorrow as much as you can ahead of what will be that increase in wind speeds come sunday, 50s and 60s are current temperatures with way how at 53 berkeley in conquered each at 55, hanging on to the 40s right now in fairfield saint helene and cloverdale but dont worry. Youve got some really comfortable weather ahead of you just like the rest of the bay area well im talking your daytime highs what to expect for the entirety of the weekend. All still to come first though obviously need to track of traffic with robin and it
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
The finish of the weekend, so red flag warnings expiring for most of the bay area now hang on and read in Solano County then up into lake mendocino counties out into the central valley. What youre seeing in that goal this you on the map what these are are high wind watches that actually dont take effect until sunday into monday that is expected to be the windiest time of this weekend so keep your eye out for sunday night into monday morning well be talking a lot about that early next week as for right now temperatures are in the 40s and 50s with livermore in napa each in the low upper 40s right now 51 while Oakland Hayward and San Francisco. Each in the 50s so your forecast definitely not bad to be starting this morning and im thinking that traffic actually is holding up pretty good to at least the bay bridge not looking bad robin yes, it is indeed still friday light, so thats great a lot of folks are taking the day off must be checking in on the commute into San Francisco and there it
Expected to last until wednesday. Pg e says its still monitoring the situation and notes that conditions could change. If you are at risk of losing electric, expect a notification as early as as this afternoon. Lets look what is driving this with meteorologist kari hall who is looking at the red flag warning. Where are you focused . Mostly on the east bay as well as the north bay. We have time to prepare for that. Lets get a look what im expecting here today. We are enjoying calmer winds now that that red flag warning has expired. We are also going to have much cooler temperatures for the weekend but that high wind event comes with another push of cool air after seeing a nice cooldown for today. We are going to see highs in upp upper 70s. We get to that red flag warning and the high fire danger that we will have for the weekend. Once again, that starts on sunday early in the morning for all of these areas shaded in orange and then we will also have a red flag warning as we see the very
For some today and as we mentioned the number of customers without power in Northern California. Is about 30,000 around the bay area. Alameda napa sam, a tail Santa Clara Santa Cruz and sonoma counties all have more than a 1000 customers who are in the dark. Although people in some sections have been given the allclear and that means their power could be restored soon so lets get the very latest now from kron fours Justine Waltman shes in our newsroom just a well pamela allclear signal has been issued for portions of Monterey Santa Cruz and santa clara counties, which means. That pg e crews can now begin patrolling all these d energize lines whether thats by helicopter or by foot or by car. And once theyve confirmed that the lines have not suffered any when driven damaged and that hazards like trees are removed customers spent can have the power restored sort still a ways off but theyve been given the all clear so lets take a look at where the power is out right now thats the purple tr