Drove in to the city with her daughters. Theyve been learning about it all week last week at school so there has been a lot of excitement at school. Reporter a total Solar Eclipse happens about once a year, somewhere on the face of the earth. What is unique about this event today is it is passing over a part of the world where millions and millions of people can all join together and look up. Inside the exploratory him they had a live feed from teens they sent to mexicos and texas. Spots within the totality. There was plenty of cheering there and in the auditorium the day turned to night. Exploring them staff member was in the zone of totality during 2017. I look for the bright stars of orion and serious and i indeed saw those on a summer morning, which was quite something. Reporter the peak of todays partial eclipse was about 11 15 a. M. In the minutes leading up to it and after, members of the San Francisco amateur Astronomy Group set up a telescope with a special filter to give peop
We got a partial one here in the bay area. So much excitement from coast tocoast. We will show you. Good afternoon i am audrey asistio. Welcome to nbc bay area news. Ian cole had his eclipse glasses handy today, he will be joining us with the story a lot of people are still talking about right now. We are tracking other stories on this monday including, look at this. This crazy video from over the weekend. The bay bridge taken over by an illegal sideshow. The fallout and what the chp can do to stop this. The head of the sec comes to silicon valley. Firefighters in the bay talk about the problems they faced during a fire that has them calling for a change to Internet Access roles. Robert handa will be joining us over the fight over Net Neutrality. Lets begin with a story that had millions of americans looking up into the sky today, maybe you as well. The total Solar Eclipse. While we didnt get the full show in the bay area, more than a dozen dates were in the so called path of totality.
And fremont, and they are overcast. Portions of the bay area reporting fog that will gradually work its way back into the shoreline. Temperatures ranging in the 50s in San Francisco and most areas are in the 50s. San jose at 60, napa 54. San rafael at highway 101, not much in the way of overcast but the fog is trying to creep around the bay. That will all be part of the forecast for the morning with partly cloudy skies, areas of fog and the temperatures that 53 to 58 degrees. Warming up inland with the stubborn fog on the coast line and the graphics you can see showing up in San Francisco. Low clouds with temperatures in the 50s. Patchy fog and 60 at lunchtime, 4 00 partly sunny with temperatures in the mid 60s. Here is that pattern again and into the afternoon bringing in the warmer temperatures and near 80 inland. It will warm up away from the shoreline but not at pacifica or San Francisco. We will talk more about the we cannot look coming up in a few minutes we have an update on the
Precautions. Jeff ranieri here. Its been so debilitating. Hard to go outside with this kind of heat. And it really is insult to injury here as our summer has been so hot the past month and a half. Walnut creek up to 105. Livermore, hot 104. Santa rosa 102. San jose, 100. And also for parts of the peninsula as high as 100 degrees in mountainview. Heat advisory until 9 00 tonight. Thats for all of the north bay. Also for the hills of the south bay. But its really right here in contra costa and alameda counties where the most widespread heat is in effect. Drink plenty of water from concord to san ramon, dublin and livermore. The good news is were starting to see a change in the atmosphere. Albeit very small right now. But a trough of cooling low pressure developing in the pacific will bring eventually the end to 100s. A quick look at the timeline shows even though it will be a very warm 80 degrees inland east bay tonight at 10 00, we will see some relief by tomorrow morning down to 70, an
Alameda counties where temperatures were the hottest. We have a newly updated temperature here as hot as 107 today in brentwood. Just hard to even get outside. A lot of folks heading to the movie theaters, malls, any kind of shops to try to stay cool in some sort of ac. Walnut creek 105. San jose, 100. Also the peninsula getting in and the heat with 100 degrees as well. Now well take a look here across the east bay where temperatures were the hottest. Were slowly starting to see things back down. 98 in sunol. A cooler 79 in oakland but look at the difference from oakland to arinden. Still a hot 101 in arinda. How do things progress . We can show you a timeline here. 10 00 p. M. Inland east bay still very warm at 80 degrees. By 5 00 a. M. , theres the difference starting 70 degrees and instead of 100s by early tomorrow afternoon, looking at 90. A full wrapup of the microclimate forecast coming up in the next 15 minutes. The weather involved in another story. This time not the heat but t