Way through this morning, its because of fog and then of course because of this wildfire smoke also away from it for just a can get the full picture. The deep deep red right there we havent had that on the map yet weve had consecutive air quality days spare the air alert days that have set records and this is the worst yet so thats saying something where getting used to bad air but this is exceptionally bad north bay, coastal areas, peninsula and all of the east bay lit up in that deep red indicating the worst of conditions not just in the bay, but really the world this morning now why our conditions so bad in only were sitting across the bay area. Well the smoke that weve had from her California Wildfires is only sinking deeper. Now we also have smoke from oregon fires making its where direction. This was days ago on wednesday, you can see how that wildfire smoke from oregon was being pushed offshore out into the pacific will 10 a couple days to settle down now and now that we are loo
Beyond. In the past seven days alone, we have dealt with the heatwave, dark skies, continued poor air quality, although while we are still responding to a global pandemic. Rectiv whher ne temporary rest from the poor air quality. Officials are over urging people to stay indoors as air quality is expected to get worse. Uni will be free today to make sure people have access to weather relief. As of now, the selma testing site will be closed due to poor air quality. Just look at all of that smoke across the bay area today. You can really see it. It is everywhere. San francisco, oakland, and san jose. Meteorologist mary lee has a closer look at our unhealthy conditions. Michelle, it is so bad out there. We are looking at air quality conditions unhealthy to hazardous today. It is even worse compared to yesterday. All of that heavy smoke really settling into the bay area down to the surface. You can see those purple dots, red, purple, maroon indicates unhealthy to hazardous air quality. Very
Week. But darren is here to tell us about that. One challenge at a time. First lets take the excessive heat. Im going to show you some daytime highs that are a lot more impressive in 100. When you hit 100 in San Francisco, that stands out. We shattered the record for today which was 92 set back in 1904. Weve only hit 100 degrees in the city of San Francisco 12 times since we started keeping records officially back in the 1870s. And of those 12, nine of them have been in september. This is the most likely time were going to do it. The hottest temperature weve hit in San Francisco since the 1870s is 107 and we did that on Labor Day Weekend three years ago. This is our time of year you te impressive numbers now. 111 in livermore. 111 in santa rosa. All the red ones with asterisks next to them. All of them are records. And just to show you how far above records we were, you can see the difference there. Tomorrow gets a little better. But when the numbers are this high, a little better does
Us to prepare for outages tonight. In addition to the heat. The state says a transmission line carrying power from oregon to california went offline unexpectedly and that is also adding to the problem definitely not good news. Meanwhile, the rise in temperatures also increasing the fire danger. A red flag warning has been issued for tomorrow running through wednesday morning. The warning has been issued for the north bay mountains east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains we want to bring in rebecca strong to talk about the record breaking heat and also that red flag warning and once again the big news, San Francisco hitting a 100 degrees something we have not seen in a 100 years rebecca yeah, thats right guys in fact it out beat the previous temperature. It was at 92 degrees back in 19 04 but today in 2020 up and hit that triple digit mark at a 100 degrees in downtown sfo also made record breaking heat set one 02 today and the triple digits continue downtown oakland. Youre at a high of
Blackouts due to the strain on the states power grid. Investigators. The el dorado fire started there is a flex alert, again, for tomorrow between 3 00 p. M. Yesterday in El Dorado Ranch and 9 00 p. M. First, we begin our coverage, tonight, with abc 7 news park. It quickly spread out of meteorologist, drew tuma, and, control, and has now led to drew, i think we all want to mandatory evacuation orders of know when are we going to get a break here . Several communities. Yeah. Cal fire says the suspects can dion and eric. Be criminally and financially records, today, were falling left and right. Responsible. The agency did not say whether the parents were expecting a boy we exceeded 100 degrees in much or a girl. Of the bay area. 13 records, set earlier today. Now, the heat was certainly unrelenting in southern 100 degrees, officially, in San Francisco. That is the warmest day weve california. Had in three years. The tripledigit temperatures sent crowds seeking relief at you can see 111 i