Conditions. Laura. Yes, certainly looks like the strongest wind event easily of the year is pretty impressive were going to see all those winds rolling down the bay area almost a textbook like pattern developing now as were going to see these winds beginning to kick in and theyre going to get ferocious starting on sunday night i believe but even thinking up by the afternoon in the north bay, but this together you can see surface area of High Pressure kind of building into the north youve got low pressure diving into the great basin. Its that contrast in the winds that brings us those strong gusty winds around the bay area you can see the iso bars here in white the tighter they get the stronger the winds were expecting a major wind event sunday night into monday morning. Even some damaging winds real possibility, so yeah weve high weather watch going up for the entire bay area same with the red flag warning doesnt matter where youre at were all going to feel these winds. Now over the mo
This is not story we want to start with today. You got that fire that started already and weve got a significant wind event coming to the bay area in fact red flag warnings going up across the entire bay area as we look toward the weekend were going to see these winds really begin to pick up so weve had some breeze out there today a little bit of more of an on shore flow out there some westerly winds thats all going to change over the weekend going to see more of a northerly wind so yeah, a lot of the hills have been talking about red flag warnings as of sunday into monday were talking red flag warnings for the entire bay area with some of those gusts. Maybe 6070 Miles Per Hour the peak. So that is a major concern a fire now burning in the north bay wind right now out of the west you can see that sea breeze kind of kicking in and as we head through the day tomorrow, well start out fairly calm then we get toward the afternoon. Those winds start to pick up again and they start to get on
Experiencing of the week conditions that were bracing for on sunday and so that is obviously in our favor right now. I know that if this fire started on sunday night things would be vastly different we talk all the time daniel give us some perspective i know all red flag warnings are not created equal how bad it is this one thats coming sunday night monday. Well we definitely dont want to sound like a broken record as we have been in and out of red flag for the last several last several weeks and really the last several months this wind event that we are expecting to see on sunday will bring a extremely strong winds winds that we have not really experience this fire season in fact the last time we saw winds this magnitude and this widespread really in the 2017 and north bay fires so when the tubbs fire yeah was fires burning in sonoma and napa counties and we know how destructive those result so yeah, definitely its been a destructive year definitely bracing for what could be the stron
Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can
We are also on standby for a coronavirus update from the state health and Human Services secretary. Well bring that to you when it begins. First we go live to kpix 5s end of act in st. Helena and napa county with an update on the last Fire Evacuation orders, anne . Revenue evacuations just ordered about an hour ago for some communities that thought they mightve dodged a bullet. Were talking about anglin and pope valley here in the napa county. I want to show you those new evacuation orders. They are west chiles pope valley road told to get out immediately. The fire has reared up in that area, and we are looking at new video this morning from outside of calistoga. That is where firefighters, we saw protecting this pg e substation as the fire was cming right up to it, as you can see there in the background. There are still active pockets of fire in areas that have already burned, and we just heard from cal fire on its plan of attack. Currently, we have multiple priorities on this inciden