Instead to wait out the weather at a nearby hotel or with family or friends. We typically stay during a red flag warning, but this one seemed worth not risking. Reporter theyve been riding out red flag warnings at their park area home and deciding against evacuating for more than a decade. This time theyre going to spend a few days in a hotel. Berkeleys mayor and fire officials warn extremely high winds could sweep to the region which is already bone dry during a record fire season. This is the first time in recent memory we felt conditions narrative broadly advising preevacuation. Reporter theyre especially concerned about People Living in the hills where winding and narrow roads make last second evacuations nightmares. So were asking people to preevacuate if they live in parts of our hills that in which theyll have difficulty getting out quickly in a fire. Reporter nearly 1,000 berkeley customers could be affected by pg e emergency power shutoffs and without power and the threat of s
Now at 11 here we go again, a new round of pg e power shut off happening hours from now. We look at the communities being impacted the most. I am ready and packed. For most of tomorrow you will not notice much and then at sunset the winds will turn on. I will time out the details coming up. A fiery crash on interstate 80 results in a shelter in place order for a east bay neighborhood. Dry conditions and increasing fire danger have pg e cutting the power to thousands tomorrow. The majority of customers impacted are in napa and sonoma. Much of the Higher Elevations are also at the risk along with thousands of customers here are the areas expected to be impacted tomorrow evening. It includes every day area county except San Francisco. We are joined with a closer look at the communities affected. And the wind affect sparking fire danger. Reporter the first thing i want to do is what most people are interested in, are you going to lose power . That nap has a lot of detail on it. Take a look
And the reason for it is the way the setup is when it comes to the arrival of the cold front. I will go into detail on that in my full forecast. For now we have a great start in san francisco, a beautiful view there. Lets take a look at the current wind direction. Its light and calm now. Notice the time bar in the righthand corner there. 11 00 a. M. Is when the winds start to move down, pushing down from the north. Notice santa rosa and napa you can see the increase in the color change with that time bar there. Thats when the red flag warning initially kicks in for the north bay mountains. Itll come from the sacramento area and then it will begin to spread over to the east bay hills. Fast forwarding that time line in through the evening hours, the winds are only expected to get worse. So here are the headlines, i will go over the red flag warnings and the timing in my full forecast. Kira . We look forward to all of that information, vianey. Well see you in about 15 minutes. Thanks. For
California, the majority of the customers impacted rn napa county, Sonoma County and marin county and with thousands of customers in san mateo and santa clara counties that could also be affected. Pg e will open over 100 Community Resource centers to support those without power and there will be handwashing stations, people can charge medical equipment and other devices and they are also providing snacks. These are the areas to be impacted starting this evening. It includes every bay area county except for San Francisco. Now lets get the latest on the weather. This afternoon is when we get the wind, right around sunset tonight is when the majority of us expect to see them pick up and it will be windy overnight. But first let me get you out the door sunday morning. Temperature sitting right around 60 and a quick look ahead shows we will see numbers in the mid70s today and plenty of morning clouds. It should look gray at times to start the day with daytime highs into the mid70s for most.
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