Listed so that you can make plans. Terry, the rush is on tonight to get ready for what could be a very long week for some people. Reporter yeah. The notification came out this evening saying that people in sausalito, are going to be without power that. Led to a major rush and it meant really bad news, a major financial loss for the shops and restaurants in this tourist town. People flocked to goodmans hardware in mill valley searching for the light. Lanterns, flash lights, batteries, flying off the shelves. One highticket item has already flown. How about generators . We are out of generators. Longer lines than usual at the arco station in mill valley. Some people heeding advice. Fill up your tank even though it was basically full. Every little ounce counts just in case if we dont know if its dwo na be two days, a week. Reporter the outage will cost businesses a bundle. Itll cost up to 300 customers per day. We will have to call all of our customers and tell them that we wont be open f
Of san jose. A lot of you felt this apparently. Twitter shows a lot of people were jolted out of bed this morning. Well go to mike nicco with this red flag warning that just went into effect seconds ago. 5 00, that was the time we were looking towards. Now were 5 01. Were a minute into this high fire danger for everywhere but the Santa Cruz Mountains. Yours starts at 5 00 this evening. Expect an increase in the winds, humidity to drop and fire conditions to deteriorate as we head throughout the day. We have the winds that will also be an issue, especially in the north bay and east bay hills. Thats what is precipitating this high fire danger. Theyre going to gust up around 45 to 55 Miles Per Hour that will down some trees which could also down power lines. When that happens on this dry vegetation we could have wildfires start easily and spread rapidly. Lets look at the current conditions. Right now we have 30 at spring valley. Thats as fast as it gets in the Higher Elevations above 1,00
Conditions were not the conditions but what were going to hear from a press conference in san jose. Well take that live. Yeah the first lets start things off in the Weather Center with john following the forecast for us this morning and this continued high fire danger. John as you guys mentioned its those factors all adding up to day tomorrow. To make for such high fire danger of the first difference from yesterday we saw that fog streaming to the golden gate evidence of cool marine layer that has been pushed out by the increase in winds overnight that have resulted in the very strong winds of it also im also the some of the drier air thats a foot are right across the bay area right now you are seeing wind speeds across the bay area peeking around 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour at times regular wind gusts will be anywhere from 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour for parts of the north bay and the east bay areas exposed such as mountain tops could see wind gusts even higher than 50 Miles Per Hour at times
You can see it highlighted in this map, due to the high fire danger right now. A live look at the outages, were going to continuously update you, large swathes of purple across the north bay is what youre seeing right now. Pg e is calling this actually phase one of the outages. A second phase is going to start about noon and last through overnight tonight. Outages will impact parts of contra costa, santa clara and alameda counties. In the second phase 234,000 homes and business also be impacted. Kari is tracking the fire dangers for us right now. They are doing that preemptively to avoid the high wind and the potential that any of the power lines could cause some sparks and then cause some very dry brush below to go up in flames. We are seeing this red flag warning in effect for all of the areas shaded in red and that includes the santa cruz mountains, where the winds will gust at times up to about 45 to 55 Miles Per Hour. Here is a live look outside in palo alto. We start out with som
But again, right now, about er 4 30 in the morning. All right. Were about a half hour away from the fire danger t reaamp u. Let me give you an idea of what happened while you were sleeping. Not much to this unfortunately. It remains the same. 5 00 this morning, all these areas in red, thats where the fire danger begins. 12 hours later for the santa cruz mountains. You end at noon tomorrow. We extend to 5 00 tomorrow evening for the other areas in red with a high fire danger. Let me show you the winds, coming out of the northeast, theyll ramp up after the 6 00 hour. Theyll be gusting 45 to 55 miles per hour, that means downed trees, power lines, that could spark a fire. Also anything that creates a spark like chains dragging behind your truck if youre tti easily fires can start today and spread. If you have to head out the s mhisilrde morning. H y. And well be in the 60s at noon. 60s and mid 70s at 4 00. Well look at the Current Conditions and more on the fire coming up. First i want to