Lightning and will sahelwe also had heal hail take a look at thisa palm tree in american canyontoppled by the high winds. Nobody got hurt but it was just one of the dramatic weather events of the day. Not too far away, in napa, hail was coming down along with the rain. The hail was a little bigger than the size of a pea and was not big enough to cause any damage but an indication of the unstable, cold air aloft. Interesting cloud formations could be seen in the distance and, a rainbow formed over walnut creek for about 30 minutes. Drivers were on edge as the first real storm blew through the bay area. Windshield wipers were in the on position all afternoon long. Regardless of the inconvience of the rain, most people were happy to see it coming down from the skythe drought was on everyones minds and, hopefully, there will be more rain in the future of the bay area. Pranay manghirmalani its definatly a change in the weather and hopefully it makes an influence with our drought. Wildfire s
The system didnt do much south. It did from marin county north. It left behind a lot of low clouds. Thats what were dealing with here. A couple breaks in the clouds. Once the low clouds burn off a lot more sunshine today. A gradual warmup. The rainfall is what is impressive. Especially towards the russian river. Vinnie martin is along saint alena road. 1. 18. Upper lake, thank you peggy,. 80. Forestville, lake port. 5inch rain. Santa rosa. 41. Napa. 20. Sausalito. 16. System has moved out. It fell apart. It gave us good rain up to the north. A lot of low clouds and mist drizzly conditions for some. 50s, 60s on the temps. Not much of a breeze. A breeze later once the low clouds burn off. There is plenty there. The trend is for sunshine and little bit warmer today. Morning clouds or fog. Some of that fog is thick, by the way. 60s, 70s for others. Sal, slow traffic to report . You know, one of the things that we are looking at is the volume of traffic has increased a lot. Starting off wit
61,000 acres. Calfire confirms one person has died in the fire but we dont know how that person died. Now, at least 400 homes have been destroyed. That number could go higher as firefighters continue to battle the flames. Governor brown declared a state of emergency in lake and napa county. The valley fire started about 1 30 in the afternoon on saturday in the community of cobb. In just hours, it grew to 10,000 acres. Then in less than 36 hours, it was 50,000 acres large burning in napa, lake and sonoma counties. We have live Team Coverage. Brian flores is live at one of the Evacuation Centers in calaveras. But first lets go to alex savidge live in middletown. Tell us about the devastation left behind there. Reporter good morning to you there. So much destruct. Were standing in front of one home. Jefferson court. Let me show you what this home used to look like. You can see from google street view. Now well give you a sense here. You walk up. This is the garage right there on the right
Threatened. We still just got an update from calfire. The valley fire is now 15 contained. We also know they added 500 firefighters to the firefight overnight. We do have continued Team Coverage for you. Well bring you the latest as well as the Recovery Efforts in just minutes here. It is a tuesday morning, september 15th. Im gasia mikaelian. Im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. We know its cooler up there and the weather is a big factor. Its much cooler. 40s and 50s. They will get rain tomorrow. Mendocino county, lake county. Down here could be iffy. But up there it looks like it. We do have low clouds. A lot of reports of drizzle. Measurable amounts. 03, San Francisco. 14 100ths in sausalito, even in the santa cruz mountains. Some cloud cover and cooler, cooler, upper 40s, 50. 87, 90 to 100 . Ive seen 47s, 49s. We will get a little more sun today. Its pouring in l. A. Theyve had 1. 25 around the l. A. Area. There are flood watches and warnings. Incredible rain down there. 5
Yesterday when it was 40s and 50s. Today its 50s and 60s. Morgan hill, about ten degrees warmer. Some of the Higher Elevations warmed up as well. Saratoga 58 at this time, yesterday it was 50. Higher clouds giving us a nice sunrise, partly sunny, mostly sunny lighter. A lot of high clouds in the morning. 80s, 90s, through the interior, 70s, 80s, around the bay. Did i hear you say a couple minor things . Yeah. Were looking the at the east shore freeway between the carquinez bridge, not a bad commute. Bay bridge toll plaza also very nice. No major problems. Couple of lanes are a little bit slower as people who pay cash have to line up a little bit, but still looks pretty good getting into San Francisco. No problems there and no problems in Contra Costa County on southbound 680 between concord and walnut creek. As we look at some of these commutes, im kind of just cycling through the maps. You dont see a lot of red. You dont see a lot of red on the maps. Thats good. Accident southbound 88