Wildfire risk of the year. The wind is already picking up at this hour and gusts could reach 70 miles an hour in the highest elevations. Pg e is closely monitoring power lines and any trees that could knock them out. The entire bay area except San Francisco could be in the dark by the end of tonight. The first round of shutoffs are underway in parts of napa and sonoma counties. In less than an hour residents in marin could lose power and the shutoffs are expected to sweep across a large portion of the east bay and the peninsula. The threat of powerful gusts once the sun goes down. Yeah. The wind is already picking up and our red flag warning is already in effect. I guess well go to darren first. Paul, i know youll focus heavily on the red flag warning. In fact, i could do that first. The red flag warning has been extended. It start tonight and it will take us through the remainder of this evening and into tuesday. Read the details on the bottom lefthand corner. Extreme fire weather bay
Now the red flag warnings will be continued for these areas through 5 00 on tuesday. The winds arent going to be as strong, but they will still be gusty. The humidity be very low to the north bay mountains, thats where we are talking about the red flag warning through tuesday evening and we have wind advisory that is in effect for the entire bay area through 11 00 tomorrow morning. Even if youre in a spot that doesnt have a high fire threat, youll still need to prepare for the potential of Power Outages as whole trees could get knocked down by those winds. Darren has a closer look at that part of the bay area. Yeah, paul, this is not going to hit the bay area equally. Itll hit some places harder than others. John ramos is in the Berkeley Hills talking about preevaccuations there for a reason. Well be showing you why the Berkeley Hills are one of the places that really need to take this seriously. Well come in for a close up look now. The week hasnt kicked in at this point, but once we
Greater numbers. Thanks for joining us everybody on kron 4 news at 5 im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thousands of people all across the state of california. Or in the dark tonight pg and e has turned off the power in parts of 24 counties, including several right here in the bay area all in the name of preventing wildfires that is the goal, heres a look at pg and es latest outage map showing the areas experiencing these preemptive power shut off the purple indicates places that are without power tonight because of these intentional shut down to see parts of napa sonoma and solano counties and then further south portions of the Oakland Hills are affected as are customers east of 6. 80 there further south theyre talking about the south bay and parts of the peninsula, a vast area here of people dealing with this unwelcome roller coaster. We have Team Coverage tonight kron fours dan kerman is in the napa valley where thousands of people are still without electricity and kron fours rob
Is a big a big hassle now we have to go through all of this. Now its 6 another night of no power for thousands of pg and e customers as the villa tea Company Continues its second night of planned Power Outages because of the high temperatures. Strong winds low humidity leading to high fire danger. Right now we are under red flag warning that last until 11 00am tomorrow morning and heat advisory is in effect until 9 oclock tonight. Thanks for joining us tonight, everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus according to the utility that shut off is forecasted to affect about 53,000 customers. Over at least 24 counties in california take a look this is the latest pg and e outage map the areas highlighted in yellow are impacted actually the areas in pink are impacted. Yellow and green just indicates regular outages for a variety of reasons but were talking about here this preemptive shut off that is the pinkish purple you see right there parts of the peninsula. The south bay. Parts of t
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we look at the tower camera as we look at the city of san francisco. High winds an extreme fire danger across the bay area. It is monday, october 26 and i am Michelle Griego. , now lets get a check of the weather with mary lee. Good morning. This is the start of the wildfire season. We are looking at strong winterfest with some of the strongest win right now. 31 mile per hour sustained wind. 22 mileperhour sustained at sfo right now. There are 37 mileperhour wind gusts in fairfield. 26 in concord and 29 at sfo. The highest amount with winds at 8090 Miles Per Hour in the highest elevations. We are talking extreme fire danger for the bay area. A red flag warning for the entire region now until 11 00 a. M. Today. Strong offshore winds with low humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens. That is why we have dangerous fire conditions. We will see the wind easing in the lower elevations but still strong in the Higher Elevations. That is why there will be