Red flag warning is set to go into effect later this weekend to parts of the bay area are bracing for what is expected to be the strongest wind event of the year. Lets go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who is tracking the dangerous fire conditions certainly dont like to see an active fire were forecasting a potentially some of the strongest winds. Weve seen in quite some time at least this year maybe even longer, but certainly a possibility some firestorm events we continue to see this but. The winds out there right now in and around this active fire. The pope fire we continue to see some of those winds out of the west thats not a bad wind thats a more moist when thats developing right now. We saw as high as 80 Miles Per Hour this afternoon now to 8 to 10 Miles Per Hour. So just some light winds blowing now on likely going to see those winds pick up a more out of a westerly wind as we head toward tomorrow, but. Then things begin to change and so thats what were concerned about
Know, the spare the air continues through at least friday. Since we talked yesterday, north bay and inland east bay have been bumpedf and here i what im talking about conditions getting more extreme, more intense. It will be rather hot from 11 00 tomorrow morning to 8 00 thursday, even hotter than today, which will be hotter than yesterday. So we have a risk of heat illness giill nheatillness everywhere except the coast. From 1 00 thursday to 6 00 friday evening, weve got more than 24 hours of critical fire conditions across areas that are already burning. As far as our forecast today, it will be cool at the coast, 60s and 70s the rest of us going to be 80s and 90s with smoky sunshine. In the north bay, an area previously under an evacuation warning has now been up graded to an Evacuation Order. Jobina has the details on this. Cal fires latest update says the glass fire has now burned more than 46,000 acres and it is just 2 contained. This is new video coming into our newsroom that wer
Ive noticed that the traffic has picked up within the last hour or so under 10 minutes off to fremont street, heres 92 its always our busiest during the Early Morning hours so traffic is a little sluggish off and on west of the 70 over its still possible. This is a good trip. No problems into foster city or send the tale and ill give you one more the richmond sandra fell hot spot free and easy drive here 7 minutes into the north bay area back to you thanks a lot rob and 5 oh one and lets get to the breaking news devastation in sonoma and napa counties where the glass fire continues to burn out of control. This is new video from overnight. This is a fire thats burning off of highway 29 on Greenwood Avenue in calistoga look at those flames. The glass fire has burned more than 46,000 acres. So far its 2 contained more than 22,000 structures are threatened. Its destroyed about 80 homes in napa and sonoma and we have a map here showing just how widespread the fire is within napa and sonoma
Experiencing of the week conditions that were bracing for on sunday and so that is obviously in our favor right now. I know that if this fire started on sunday night things would be vastly different we talk all the time daniel give us some perspective i know all red flag warnings are not created equal how bad it is this one thats coming sunday night monday. Well we definitely dont want to sound like a broken record as we have been in and out of red flag for the last several last several weeks and really the last several months this wind event that we are expecting to see on sunday will bring a extremely strong winds winds that we have not really experience this fire season in fact the last time we saw winds this magnitude and this widespread really in the 2017 and north bay fires so when the tubbs fire yeah was fires burning in sonoma and napa counties and we know how destructive those result so yeah, definitely its been a destructive year definitely bracing for what could be the stron
6 00 friday, critical fire conditions. Well have gusty winds blowing to the southeast. We already have dry fuels that will get dryer and this will become a red flag warning. So be prepared to advantage being eight. And it will be extremely hot tomorrow everywhere but the coast risk of heat illness. In the north bay, an area that was previously under evacuation warning is now an Evacuation Order. Cal fires latest update says that the glass fire has now burned more than 46,000 acres and is just 2 contained. So take a look at this new video that has come into our newsroom of the wildfire raging in calistoga overnight. The area west of 29 and highway 8 is upgraded to an Evacuation Order. Here is time lapse footage from yesterday. Firefighters on the scene tried to keep the fire from spreading, but you can see that the fire line kept moving forward over time. Fire conditions are expected to worsen in the coming days and Amy Hollyfield is up in napa county and well hear more from her coming