We want to show you what i would like. It looked like this. And wildfire lore in science, where there is a smoke column, you will almost find a fire at the bottom of it. The current problem in napa county, lots of smoke column, some small, some enormous. The robert craig winery is only about two miles from the center of this town. Here, fullcourt ground and air assault is underway. They drop bucket after bucket after bucket of water blaming brush. Firefighters are concerned that this fire is going to get up and angling, it is going to have to come up through this valley. And they are doing everything humanly possible to keep that from happening. Another major problem, this area has already burned once, but not hot spots are flaring up. And next to the hospital, almost an unlimited amount of burnable fuel. Even as firefighters battled fires all around, and gusty winds from the red light morning bearing down, essential repairs were going on. Here outside of santa rosa, concrete barriers
Most areas have clear skies overhead. So lets break it down for you today. Sun is up at 7 00 and 12 ht air quality today will between good and moderate. But it is breezy and mild out there, temperatures in the mid70s to mid80s. Not only warming up, were tracking hire fire danger, now a red flag warning that starts at 9 00 p. M. Saturday, and well take a much closer look at the fire danger and the hot temperatures, how the hot well get in the full forecast. And firefighters in the north bay are already watching the weather. Yesterday cal fire crews worked tocontain a fast moving grass fire in santa rosa. It was stopped at 12 acres and in homes or buildingsm the next half hour. And you can get updates anytime you want, the squaair quality tn our website lets you see the Realtime Data. And we are expecting to hear from Breonna Taylors family today for the First Time Since the grand jurys decision was announced. They will speak publicly this morning after another night of protests leading
Along the immediate coast. Inland highs today, reaching up to one 15. Thats right in the bay area up to about one 15 for the bay itself mid to upper 90s beyond 100 and the coast 75 to around 85 with all of that live shot coming in from the golden gate we actually have a little bit of a breeze check in at this hour. Current temperatures, 73 antioch 72 going on for concord we already have some lower 70s along the east bay shoreline this is part of the problem. We didnt cool off too much last overnight so were starting off with numbers like this 60s meanwhile to the north bay and 69 san jose 72, San Francisco. Thats right 72 right now. So for comparison sake were almost a dozen agrees ahead of yesterday so we start off with that advancement its much easier to pop higher for high temperatures today than we saw from yesterday the lowdown for later on today for those inland areas, particularly 95 by 11 by 2 oclock, one 08. I will have a look at your mercury forecast coming up in a bit marty
Here throughout the weekend to make the lake safe again in the meantime napa county deputies want to make sure that people stay away. Napa counties Lake Berryessa might seem like the ideal place to cool off an escape this weekends scorching temperatures but because of the hennessy fire. The lake is off limits through labor day the areas surrounding the lake. The infrastructure and some places the roadway itself. Suffered some pretty some pretty significant damage. A county under sheriff John Crawford says deputies will be patrolling the lake to keep people away. The closure is for safety and will allow hundreds of crews to remove trees clear around roads and put in new utility poles and lines all that work needs to happen without visitors flocking to the lake. Theres just a lot just a lot of things that need to be taking care of cleaned up prepared. Before people can really safely come back and recreate a late various, the head of the fire is the largest of the lnu complex fires, its b
Weekend hot and dry temperatures exceeding 100 a lot of the east bay portions of county as well little part like San Francisco to the and also along the coastline, not to are in a little bit. Were looking at excessive heat advisory, but this is an excessive heat warning and just about all the entire bay area for the weekend temperatures thus far come into the 60s we got some 50s up to the north bay feeling pretty good to start 61, san jose. Most readings inland are actually ahead of the ball game or only trailing a little bit around the coast. And up to the north bay a little bit as well not having a lot the way of winds just a minor little breeze here going on here is the breakdown word, 84 by 11 by 2 oclock 99. Again with numbers topping off well beyond 100. Well take a closer inspection of those temperatures coming up in just a bit marty. All right dave and we want to continue our coverage of this hot Holiday Weekend by taking a look the way to some cities are helping people stay co