Residents. This is the latest outage map on pg and es website. Those pink triangles indicate areas without power because of the Public Safety power shut offs. Thank you for joining us tonight on this monday night im pam moore welcome everybody, im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne. Pg and e began shutting off power over the weekend ahead of a major wind event and take a look at these wind speeds these were recorded overnight saint helene a reported wind gusts of 89 miles an hour. Healdsburg 83 miles an hour blackhawks 68 hawkeye 61 pittsburgh, 57 Miles Per Hour oakland, 51 Miles Per Hour and the danger unfortunately is still not over and chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking of another round of strong winds. Yeah just a classic offshore wind event developing out there right now weve seen this play out weve seen some of the worst fire conditions and some very bad fire start under these exact kind of conditions right now High Pressure sitting there in the pacific as a ridge bui
Customers across Northern California are a set to lose power this weekend under dangerous wind conditions. Every county except San Francisco is going to be affected. A new wild fire breaks out in napa county. Firefighters raced to contain the flames. There is just 10 days before the elections and Record Numbers have already cast their ballot. How to make sure your vote is counted before the rush. Good morning. I am emily turner. 1st, a red flag warning issued for the entire bay area beginning tomorrow morning. Pg e says it will cut power to more than 1 million customers this weekend. Huge portions of napa, sonoma and ran counties are impacted. Much of the Higher Elevations are also impacted along with thousands of customers in the santa cruz mountains. Some people are already gearing up. I am past and i have my camping gear in my husbands truck. We just get ready i chose to live in Sonoma County so i pack. Lets go straight to meteorologist, darren peck. The 1st thing about today is, no
Were talking about you know we get so accustomed to talking about how hot its going to be some going to be necessary so hot. But very dry and windy to breezy with all this as well and you heard party talking earlier about the red flag warning theres the Coverage Area the whole day. Waters edge to the inland valleys higher elevations, lower elevations and valleys am through 11 00am on monday gives us a good 24 hours plus on that warning period live shot coming in from half moon bay, russia deal with some cloud cover in even some localized fog in some areas to take the elevator fog a little bit. Bay area not too off the upper 50s going on the east bay shoreline 40s up to the north bay 54 San Francisco, 53 going on for can also for san jose giving you comparison sake, were a little cooler along the peninsula and up to the north bay. A little warmer in the east bays you can see by a couple degrees here. All right a wakeup forecast keeps some of those clouds and a little bit in the way that
That all cities from santa rosa down to santa cruz and gilroy are under a red flag warning tonight, coastal regions, Santa Cruz Mountains and lower valleys are also under a redflag warning but that runs through 11 oclock tomorrow morning. Pg e has already turned off the power to 225,000 customers across the state with 136,000 more expected to lose power at some point tonight and the power is already off in the north bay. The areas marked here in purple that with that triangle thats the places that have already lost power pg e is turning off the power because the wind gusts could knock over a power line and start another devastating fire. Once this wind event is over power will be restored in phases. Starting monday night through tuesday night. And we have Team Coverage of tonights events kron fours gayle ong is live for us now in the east bay, where the winds have just started to pick up. Well have the latest from her in just a few moments. But first want to check in with meteorologist
St. Helena. A red flag warning for pre much all of the bay area. The big event is tonight. It is essentially going on right now the wind will peak, most likely. The model pushing forward, lets get to about now. This really tells the story. 11 00, 12 00. The contour is getting a little brighter. It starts, weeks, and comes back down. Between now, 4 00 and 5 00, the wind will be pretty robust. That is the main concern. A secondary event shows up on tuesday, but it is not as robust. Mount diablo, 67 Miles Per Hour, mount st. Helena, current numbers at 50 Miles Per Hour. Bill, thank you. Hundreds of thousands of homes are in the dark after pg e cut power. A total 6000 customers are expected to lose their power. So far this weather event is unfolding as they predicted. Because of the anticipated strong wind, the utility began to shut down power. Shes unsure if she can work on monday i work from home. If my wifi is out, if it is not on yet, that could be a big problem. Reporter even more of