Good evening. Welcome to kqed news room. California is facing a damagesly high fire risk this year. Wildfires providing a warning sign of what may be ahead. Record temperatures and the statewide drought have heightened concerns. It could be the worst fire season in decades. Joining me to discuss the dangers is paul rogers. Hi, paul. What is the latest on the southern kra california fires. Theres been fires across san diego county. There are ten fires. We had three days of really extremely hot weather. The winds that blow from the land out to the ocean and are connected with high fire risks. 22,000 acres burned, about ten homes have burned down so far. The firefighters today, friday, got the upper hand on a lot of them because the weather cooled down. Humidity levels went up. San diego, at least, for now got off relatively okay. Quite scary but not a lot of houses. There was one fatality. A homeless person who died. This was a warning for the rest of the state of what we could be in for
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Paul deannos in the Weather Center tonight paul. Paul weather paul weather paul wrap paul wrap tonight we are hearing eveno if you thought today was hot, just wait. Were talking about temperatures topping 100 degrees for some of you. We have to shut off the influence of the entire Pacific Ocean to get a heatwave around here. Thats what this ridge of High Pressure will do. It began today but really takes hold tomorrow and wednesday where much of the bay area surgeon a heat advisory including the south is under a heat advisory including the south bay and oakland, San Francisco, inland temperatures hitting triple digits, especially on wednesday, widespread 80s in San Francisco starting tomorrow. This will be 15 to 25 degrees above average. We likely will see record highs wednesday, but this really isnt that uncommon for may. As a matter of fact, last may we hit 90 degrees six different times away from the water. We may do it two or th
Good evening. Welcome to kqed news room. California is facing a damagesly high fire risk this year. Wildfires providing a warning sign of what may be ahead. Record temperatures and the statewide drought have heightened concerns. It could be the worst fire season in decades. Joining me to discuss the dangers is paul rogers. Hi, paul. What is the latest on the southern kra california fires. Theres been fires across san diego county. There are ten fires. We had three days of really extremely hot weather. The winds that blow from the land out to the ocean and are connected with high fire risks. 22,000 acres burned, about ten homes have burned down so far. The firefighters today, friday, got the upper hand on a lot of them because the weather cooled down. Humidity levels went up. San diego, at least, for now got off relatively okay. Quite scary but not a lot of houses. There was one fatality. A homeless person who died. This was a warning for the rest of the state of what we could be in for
Facing the state and its not without controversy. For example, whats going to happen with if there was a drought with the fires or what happens with high speed rail . Were going to be talking about that as well. And phil later on today youre going to be talking to state senator jerry hill to get perspective on this. Insurance rates could Flood Insurance rates could end up skyrocketing, we talked to an expert this week. Something a lot of people are watching this week in dc. Thats right but first why dont we take a look at the weather . Lets do that and look outside right now this is from the rooftop camera. A bowl day so far Beautiful Day so far. Partly cloudy out there and heres whats going on. The current temperatures in concord you have 38. San francisco 47 and santa rosa 40 degrees. And heres whats going on for the fest of the day. Rest of the day. These are the weather headlines its partly cloudy out there a little bit of patchy fog. Mostly sunny today. So should be good but we ha
Good evening. Welcome to kqed news room. California is facing a damagesly high fire risk this year. Wildfires providing a warning sign of what may be ahead. Record temperatures and the statewide drought have heightened concerns. It could be the worst fire season in decades. Joining me to discuss the dangers is paul rogers. Hi, paul. What is the latest on the southern kra california fires. Theres been fires across san diego county. There are ten fires. We had three days of really extremely hot weather. The winds that blow from the land out to the ocean and are connected with high fire risks. 22,000 acres burned, about ten homes have burned down so far. The firefighters today, friday, got the upper hand on a lot of them because the weather cooled down. Humidity levels went up. San diego, at least, for now got off relatively okay. Quite scary but not a lot of houses. There was one fatality. A homeless person who died. This was a warning for the rest of the state of what we could be in for