Bit more of that today as we do see return of moderate conditions for air quality for most of the bay area, not enough to stay inside, but just enough that were not those Crystal Clear skies we had once been saying 40s and 50s for most of the bay, although its another chilly one for the north bay take a look at fairfield the votto petaluma and santa rosa this morning, each falling into the upper 30s. Santa rosa right now youre the cool spot at 38 degrees. Robin all right, thank you for the update john now lets update your morning commute because its picking up out there, especially on 92 are checking a trip across the san mateo bridge there it is and you see its crawling right thats a westbound traffic right there leaving hayward and its been stopping go since the 4 oclock hour and only heavier now so were at 40 minutes and growing which is still a very quick trip off to the peninsula here the bay bridge toll plaza 80 west, no delays at all so come on and were at 12 minutes to fremont
40s, currently thats a little update on your forecast weve got plenty more to come as for traffic Robin Winston is on standby, yes still tracking a hot spot left over from the 8 oclock hour john a big problem in Castro Valley east bound 5. 80 before redwood after 2. 38 an overturned crash with some folks trapped inside of a vehicle, so. Emergency crews are on scene still working with this theyve issued a Traffic Alert your 2 left lanes are closed and its awful here on to 38 to 38 is backed up on to the nimitz the northbound them it is backing up into hayward and then the southbound even set connector is going to be jammed out of san leandro from washington so if you can just use 5. 80 the entire trip. Youll save a little bit of time youll be stuck in the traffic leading up to red would but at least you dont have to deal with the backup on to 38 or trying to connect from the nimitz so just stick with 5. 80 for the trip to oakland and san leandro and eventually to Castro Valley this is g
L a new fire in fact those fires you can tell that the brush there was already set ready to go so youre in very active fire region and now weve got another fire burning. And weve got some very strong winds coming on the way. Winds right now weve seen of the 1618 Miles Per Hour in fire certainly enough to move that fire long. But thats not what were most concerned about is the winds that will likely take place this weekend, red flag warnings are going up for the entire bay area over the weekend expecting some 4050 mile an hour gusts, even down in the valley floors were going to see some very gusty winds extremely low humidity maybe even some places less than 10 and over the mountain tops maybe some 6070 mile an hour winds. So here we go put this into motion now as we take in tomorrow morning, not bad just an easy breeze. Now the west generally but then things begin to start to shift gears we start to see things pick up and by the afternoon and evening tomorrow, those winds start to pick
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
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