St. Helena. A red flag warning for pre much all of the bay area. The big event is tonight. It is essentially going on right now the wind will peak, most likely. The model pushing forward, lets get to about now. This really tells the story. 11 00, 12 00. The contour is getting a little brighter. It starts, weeks, and comes back down. Between now, 4 00 and 5 00, the wind will be pretty robust. That is the main concern. A secondary event shows up on tuesday, but it is not as robust. Mount diablo, 67 Miles Per Hour, mount st. Helena, current numbers at 50 Miles Per Hour. Bill, thank you. Hundreds of thousands of homes are in the dark after pg e cut power. A total 6000 customers are expected to lose their power. So far this weather event is unfolding as they predicted. Because of the anticipated strong wind, the utility began to shut down power. Shes unsure if she can work on monday i work from home. If my wifi is out, if it is not on yet, that could be a big problem. Reporter even more of
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When we talk about fire danger, that means there is a red flag warning. For a look at who exactly is affected and when the winds will pick up lets get to francis. We have a red flag warning in effect. Its first going to hit the north bay mountains and east bay hills tomorrow at 11 00 in the morning and spreads to the rest of the bay area for the coast and the rest of the lower elevations by 8 00 tomorrow. Winds will be from the northnortheast, so this is try land breeze, will bring humidity down into single digits. Gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour around the bay and even near 70 Miles Per Hour over the Higher Elevations and ridges. So this is extreme fire weather conditions. Youll want to secure your Outdoor Furniture and everything can you to be prepared. It will peak into monday morning. Now pg e is warning hundreds of thousands of customers across Northern California they may lose power tomorrow. We have high confidence this will be the strongest diablo and fire weather so far. We have
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. These are the equivalent if not stronger than the tubbs fire of 2017 and kinkaid in 2019. Theyre shutting down after of california, thats crazy to me. Seemingly everyone in the bay area is preparing for the effects as critical fire conditions move in this morning. It means Power Outages could be widespread. Take a look, pg es Public Safety power shutoffs could kick in for the areas you see here in orange in just a matter of hours. Good morning, everybody, it is sunday, october 25. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. We have complete coverage of these Power Outages and what you need to know about them. Were tracking fire danger as well. Lets get right over to meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. All is calm right now with the south wind, an onshore flow. Here is live doppler 7 with the cloud cover. By the afternoon this will be abruptly changing. Northeasterly winds, 25 to 30 mi
Public safety power shutoffs right now. More than 50,000 Northern California customers are impacted here in the bay area about 22,000 pg e customers are expected to lose power in seven counties. The utility hopes to restore service by 10 00 p. M. Friday. Pg e is stressing this power shutoff is shorter than last years when some customers were in the dark for about a week. That was a tough time for people. Yes. Thank you. The outages are having a big impact on people all across the bay area. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan is live in walnut creek with more. Good morning. Walnut creek had power shutoff last night. No street lights, no homes with lights on. The light you see is from our news van. Pg e has been informing residents since monday that power may be shut off due to the threat of wildfires. Here in the east bay, the psps event will affect over 6,000 customers, mostly in walnut creek, danville, oakland. Pg e opened 40 Community Resource centers. These are places people can go to i