It is tuesday, august 25th. Is it smoky in there this morning, kumasi. I find it gets smokier as the day goes on. Early in the morning, oh, its not too bad. And then it comes back. No, were not done here. For anyone without air conditioning, you might be like me. The windows open in the middle of the night woke you up. I hope that did not happen to you. Mike is back right now to give us a forecast for today. Mike, i hope you have some good news. I do. But let me tell you, even those of us with air conditioning are suffering as you can probably tell from my voice this morning. It tends to draw it in. We cant our houses air tight enough. Everyone is suffering, just different degrees, i guess. I want to show you the fog out there because it is mixing with the smoke and low visibilisibii in many areas and slowly funneling off towards the east. Air quality is unhealthy in the south bay. Unhealthy for everybody in the east bay valleys. Its moderate around the bay, thanks to that localized se
Pam moore, it is all everybody is talking about today the orange red skies alacross the bay area that blow thanks to the wildfire smoke drifting across our area blocking out the sun, heres what it looks like right now you see the upper lefthand corner ats the Richmond Sandra fell bridge toll plaza. The right hand corner at the top the san mateo bridge. The lower right corner 6. 80 in walnut creek and the left lower corner, the bay bridge toll plaza and every place has that orange haze in the sky kron 4 seed meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now with the forecast lawrence how long could this be with us when you thought twentytwenty couldnt get any more strange here we go but. That smoke is going to be with us for a bit now remember were talking about. That offshore wind yesterday that north northeasterly wind we had a couple of to our north we had won the bear fire there near paradise where we had a fire there that provide a lot of smoke in the bay area a few years back also the au
The bay area and beyond so many viewers, sharing pictures and videos like these today, thank you so much for sending them in helping us understand the scope of this problem, the smoky air mostly coming from wildfires, burning north of us. Yes for the air alert spanning woodburning as you can imagine is going to be in effect through at least friday now in the bay areas thick smoke from wildfires continues to envelop the region creating this orange hazy sky businesses is the 25th straight day. The air district is issued a spare the air alert. And here to explain the Science Behind all the weird colors out there Lawrence Karnow the guys just when i thought this is going to be kind of a slow weather day done with all the heat waves and everything else. Here we go one of the strangest days ive ever experienced in weather waking up to the orange skies outside. And all that smoke coming down from the fires and certainly it moved along want to push on through bringing with a lot of smoke not f
And the position that youre going for, whether its a request to me to be a member of a board or a commission, that i have the ability to make appointments for. Or if you decide to run for Public Office. You know, when i decided to run for supervisor, i wanted to be a good supervisor for the people of the district i represent, where i grew up in. And so that entailed making sure i knew how to do policy and legislation and i understand how the process worked and the city worked. And the good news id been on commissions and other places. So i understood it. But i actually went back to school late in life, before i ran, to get my masters in public administration. And i ended up graduating from u. S. F. With honors, because i was committed to making sure that i was the best policymaker for the people that i represented. And im not suggesting that you do that. Its just that whatever role you want to play, you set your sights on that role and you make sure that youre prepared to take it on an
Kumasi already said it was. Maybe reggie will hear me and let me know later. We have the potential for unhealthy air and record setting spare the air alert day. Lets take a look and go up to the north bay. You can see around u green and yellow as we go through the bay and into the south bay where were also green and yellow. So, heres a look at san jose where we have that cleaner air and 58 degrees. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. The same. Temperatures this afternoon almost exactly the same place we were yesterday. 60s at the coast. 70s around the bay and 80s inland. Heres reggie with more news. Its definitely better this morning smoke wise, thank you, mike. Now, lets look at the strong earthquake that struck off the coast of northern chile overnight. A preliminary magnitude of 6. 8. All right. People felt it far from the epicenter, 800 miles north and 400 miles south in the capital of santiago. At least ten aftershocks were reported. The chilean navy says no tsunami threat. Some