And friday really in the midst of it as winds begin to pick up. I mean theres one telltale sign of the winds right there is why are your Center Towers shot waving a bit back and forth and what is otherwise a really beautiful view. Fire weather with red flag warnings in effect now all the way through friday at 11 00am for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains nearly all of the east bay once you head into the east bay mountains in the inland valleys and then across the north bay to winds, especially in the north bay going to be gusting into a 50 mile per hour range at times. Winds already picked up compared to earlier this morning atlas peak vacaville, petaluma among some breezy spots winds will gradually increase on into the afternoon today you see that areas like vacaville in petaluma as well as down into the south bay at the tonight into tomorrow morning will be the breezy us tough conditions. This is thursday morning at 04 45am right here likely before youre getting up youll h
Conditions continue were looking purple spots up and ran county look all around mount and then finally in the north bay. Weve got widespread areas in both napa and sonoma counties, particularly higher in the hills but anywhere where the winds pick up thats where p g news potentially going to be shutting off power if they havent done so already weve got Team Coverage kron fours will tran in the east bay Sarah Stinson in the north bay and john trouble in the Weather Center john lets go to you because this is forecast is very important. Yeah we are looking at a very windy next few hours ahead of us, especially although its going to remain breezy even into the afternoon ahead of us windy conditions noteworthy for areas that dont usually see the strongest of winds either this is pretty a substantial all across the region, lets get a look outside its it hurts our notice. Theres really no fog thats because these are dry offshore winds pushing mostly out of the north and out of the northeast.
Is actually familiar across a lot of the bay area tonight as many pg and e customers are bracing now for a 3rd day without power. Thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne pg needed start restoring power to some neighborhoods tonight, well bring you the latest on the shut offs in a moment, but first. Lets check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow on the when and the heat or yet were not done with the win check in effect. Today we had some very impressive gusts around the bay area 65 mile an hour gust reported. Mount st. Louis that was early on in the morning, 57 mile an hour gust amount the album in the Santa Cruz Mountains 53 Miles Per Hour 52 healdsburg Oakland Hills almost 40 mile an hour gusts. Thats where were seen over the mountain tops especially not as windy down below, but certainly concerning as youve got very dry conditions youve got the hot temperatures record heat in place today and you got those strong offshore Winds Continuing to blow in f
County. Within the last hour a lot of folks have seen their power go back on here. Including this restaurant here. You can see the lights are on. G operational for the first time su. Slowly but surely the power is going back on. I hope it comes on this afternoon. So i can watch the news. Nancy is anxiously awaiting the power to come back on in her neighborhood. The area has been without afternoon. Windy weather prompted pg e to activate a Public Safety power shut off. Its a good idea. X8x that is one less way that the fires can start. The windy conditions indeed cause damage in the neighborhood. A downed service box and a loose transformer kept crews busy. They had to repair at 36 locations. It could have provided a spark. For a fire. That is thee÷ reason why we shu off the power for safety. C7bile catastrophic fire. The power has been shut off multiple times and evacuated twice. The family is getting by with a whole house generator. But even once the power is on, they wont rest ea
Lunchtime. Still breezy enough as you can notice though just not as windy as this morning as and winds remaining with us enough into the early evening that yeah, fire danger is still of concern today, especially when youre talking temperatures as warm as we will have them again. 60s 70s and even some 80s to kick off this morning. Berkeley conquered Fairfield Beach at 77 degrees falling out of the 80s in berkeley just minutes ago. Alameda at 75 right now. Later todays daytime highs still in the upper 90s inland, mid 90s by the bay and some mid 80s right along the coastline. Robin. All right, thank you for the update lets update the morning commute which is off to a very quiet start to like what i see out there and checking the drive into San Francisco. So lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza there it is traffic nice and smooth here at the pay gates easy going across the upper deck and no major issues there downtown San Francisco, heres 92. Its our busiest yes, we have a bi