The north bay and inland east bay beginning saturday evening at 9 00 until 8 00 monday morning. On mountain peaks, winds could gust 50 miles an hour. This raises a quadruple threat. Intense winds can whip up controlled fires into firestorms. We are taking initiative tos death up our units that are out on the fires. We will put additional staffing out. That will go across the board. Our house is right behind a hill. Is something we think about when the high winds come to make sure to water down our backyard. Reporter that raises the unlikely sect of bay area power shutoffs. The potential is real for sierra foothill counties. Weather is constantly changing. We have a team of meteorologist standing by 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They are monitoring the changes to see what the trends in the weather are and to see if we need to make any adjustments. Reporter prevailing winds could pump unhealthy levels of smoke back into the bay area, forcing more hungry down. It was hard on me but h
Take this into saturday night and into sunday morning. Look at the humidity values. The brighter colors represent the strong wind speeds. Avery in napa county and celano county. As you can see into the afternoon hours, wind is still a factor but so is the heat and is still very dry. Could have relative humidity right around 15 to 16 . Later in the day sunday the winds will back off. The wind is one factor. Of the heat is another. We will talk about a few neighborhoods right around 100 degrees as we head into your sundays forecast. We will talk more about the hot weekend, fire danger coming up in a little bit. Pg e is warming warning about the power shut off this weekend. And outage would affect 97,000 customers in northern counties, most outside the bay area. Only 200 customers in napa county and 50 in lake county affected. On pg es website you can enter your address to see if your home or business is in the impacted area. First responders are bracing for the hot windy weather this wee
Danger. Weve seen coverage of the dangerous weather in store for this weekend. We are standing by to tell us how fire crews are preparing. First, lets go over to meteorologist tracking this condition we can expect this weekend. Rosemary. We are expecting some very hot weather. Very dry and eventually it is expected to be very windy, especially in the hills. Outside our doors in this area, a live look in San Francisco. Many are cooler today. Six degrees cooler around the bay anywhere from 3 to 4 degrees cooler. That begins to change tomorrow with a warmup expected for the bay area on saturday. By saturday night we expect the winds to pick up and were looking at the hottest and driest and windiest days come our way as we get through saturday night through monday morning. Thats when the red flag will be in place. It will be parts of our hills as well as the east bay. The temperatures, when i expect the inland cities to hit 100 degrees. Coming up in just a minute. The approaching heat wave
Talking about our high fire danger and a spare the air alert with our hazy and smoky skies. There is a lot to get to. The heat advisory is along the coast and the bay for today. We have excessive heat warnings in effect for the rest of the bay area. All the highlighted areas in pink are under the excessive heat warning. We have a spare the air alert that remains in effect and we continue with smoky and hazy skies. We are record 21 days in a row with our spare the air alert in effect. So we are looking at a red flag warning, critical weather conditions up in the hills. The north bay mountains as well as east bay hills, that is from tonight all the way until wednesday morning. We will talk all about this coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes. Lets check in gianna lets look at traffic. We start on 80, westbounder leisuretowne boulevard we have a crash with all lanes blocked that happened at about 2 30. This is a fatal incident. Chp is still on scene for the investigation. Th
Containment also went up to 17 the hurricane warning is out for all of the areas in this red area here. As we come in closer, when you from 13 yesterday. About 77,000 people remain evacuate from the homes in have a storm this strong, the santa cruz and san mateo storm surge will be a huge counties. This fire has destroyed more concern, possibly on the order of 9 to 13 feet, and theres a than 330 buildings, most in Santa Cruz County. That number is only going to chance this surge of water could move 30 miles inland. Thats just amazing. Increase. Obviously a large incident like so thats the latest on what is a strengthening storm, and it this encompasses numerous will be a big concern over the roadways and numerous next few days. Structures within the interior here is a live camera look at that is very difficult to get San Francisco, where you see to. Especially with the amount of some layers im watching. Trees that have fallen and the the fog hanging out ern, that amount of debris thats