Going to the green here in santa rosa. Also in San Francisco, and moderate through novato, concord, napa and redwood city and oakland. Over the next 12 hours, i think most of us will be in the moderate range with the coast in the good category. Ill show you whats ahead for tomorrow and also what im watching that might bring some smoke eventually back to the bay area. Well have that in about 18 minutes. Its like a big roller coaster ride. All right. Well see you shortly, jeff. Well four weeks of being stuck indoors, is it safe to go outside, at least for the next couple of days. Marianne favro for us this evening. Marianne . Reporter well, yes, the air quality has definitely improved compared to last week. In fact, i saw a tiny patch of blue sky this afternoon in san jose. But pulmonologists say this air is still unhealthy so dont ditch your n95 masks just yet. Last week we had to contend with orange skies, thick smoke and unhealthy air. Today a visible improvement. Less smoke and in se
Winds that will head our way today but we have the fog to deal with first. Here is a look at live doppler 7 where a dense fog advisory a lot like yesterday will take us through about 9 00. 52 in novato. 55 in San Francisco with 60 in livermore. Visibility in miles here, reduced to about a mile in santa rosa, over a mile in oakland. So its bad everywhere, two to three miles anyoneland valleys and the best we can do is six miles out by the delta where the air quality is bad, unhealthy vacaville, rio vista. Closer to the bay area, shows were in the green for now and that is pretty good news, below 100 as we look at our index but getting down to santa cruz more unhealthy air and that will winds are expected to pick up. So throughout the day today, were looking at some smog, spare the air alert, conditions, cooler by five to ten degrees. Well see 70s to low 80s today, hazy, certainly wear your massimass i mask out there. Index below 100 at times and well explain how the winds will help us o
Yeah, and, you know, unfortunately, like you said, those fears from the lightning strikes was they would start fires and thats what were seeing. Were going to continue to see the poor air quality, unfortunately, at least for today as well because we have that spare the air alert in place. Its sort of a mix of smoke and welcome back. Washington post reporter bob fog especially around the woodward has shocked the country coastline right now. If you take a look at half moon this week with taped comments by bay, you can see the dense fog president donald trump. Among the most important using our Weather Underground cameras there and it looks gray revelations is president s and cloudy in through san jose as well. 61 degrees right now. Acknowledge many of the pr wind speeds are calm, which is potential spread and deadliness of covid19. Actu more at ground political analyst Larry Gerston level, the fact its not getting the chance to really mix out of joins us with his perspective. The area. C
News. Today is the first day in a month we are not under a spare the air alert. A welcome sight, blue skies. Just like our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri has been saying. All the wildfires smoke is out of the bay area. Here is a live look at the air quality map today. Almost the entire bay area is in green which means the air quality is good. A couple of patches of yellow which is the moderate yellow. Jeff will join us a little bit to talk about how long this clean air will stick around. Our air is good and other part s of the states are downright terrible. Yosemite National Park shuts down because of whhazardous air. Park raengers closed the park a 5 00 p. M. And it will remain closed through the weekend. Thats off the chart at 2 00 p. M. Minutes ago it is higher now. This is moestly because of the creek fire in fresno county. Yosemite certainly looks terrible. Bad air is blanketing a lot of the rest of the west. Here ises the map now. San francisco right here you can see it. It is
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. The west Coast Wildfire crisis causing smokefilled skies to dominate the bay area. From the Serious Health effects to todays niners game potentially put on pause. And mental stress for some. The gloomy air affecting all of us. Good morning, everyone, im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Today is the 22nd executive spare the air day. Meteorologist lisa argen is here. Good mornin sig relief . Well, liz, were in a complicated blocked pattern in our atmosphere. It will change but it will be slow. Theres even smoke offshore, as well as to the south of us with the many fires burning. So it is going to be a while. But things are trending better as we get into the next 24 to 30 hours. Theres a look at the fog off the coast and smoke all throughout the state of california. Visibility continues to be reduced with the fog and haze and smoke entrained in this marine layer. A mile and a half, a mile and a quarter, peta