I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets get to meteorologist mary lee with the hot forecast. Here we go, we are looking at our extreme heat continuing for us today and with it, with those daytime highs, likely tying or breaking records. We have some cooling centers open. Santa rosa will have them from 11 00 to 7 00 four people trying to get some relief from the heat at Rincon Valley library and the Salvation Army senior center. If you do go out there, you will need to wear your mask as well as social distance. In santa rosa, highs are in the triple digits. It is 104 in concord and around the bay, low to mid 80s. 80 for San Francisco and 86 for oakland. Because of this extreme heat, excessive heat warnings remain in effect due to this persistent and dangerous heat and it remains in effect not just for today but actually through 9 00 wednesday. So we are still looking at the heat and going to cool down a little bit. Temperatures will be slightly erdeils up in just a bit firefighters a
On cbsn bay area. Two wildfires burning out of control in napa county. What for thes are up against today. And scorching heat continueinpartof the bay area of relief. Whats on tap where you live. Im michelle griego. Good afternoon everyone. Im len kiese. Lets start with the forecast, heres motion mary lee. Im tracking the temperatures on the rise. So dangerous heat continues for the bay area. Our heat wave is not over yet and excessive heat warnings remain in effect all the way until 9 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Due to this persistent and extreme heat. So our temperatures, we are talking about in the low to mid 80s around the bay and mid 90s in san jose. And triple digit heat in concord, anywhere from 12 to 17 degrees above average for this time of year. I want to show you a live look with the Mount Hamilton camera. All because of the marsh fire burning just to the east of milpitas and checking the Current Conditions for the marsh fire, already at 90 degrees in this area. So firefighters are e
South. It is applying a lot of moisture and sending it to Northern California. When it interacts with the heat, it creates the thunderstorms and that will likely happen again overnight tonight. The red flag warning does continue until early tomorrow morning for the threat of more. Well go hour by hour and show you the best chance of finding the storms tomorrow and the heat wave continuing. All right, thanks. Now to developing news on all the problems caused by that severe storm. It knocked out power to thousands. But first to the fires including this one in san jose. Fire crews say line started a fire at a sixunit apartment compx. One person was burned out but no one was hurt. Abc7 News Reporter cornell bernard where there was a grass fire. One has now grown to 300 acres. A fierce summer storm packed a punch overnight bringing this. A nonstop line show to all parts of the bay area. Amazing to see but firefighters say all that lightning combined with extreme heat sparked multiple fires.
Bay area. Our chief meteorologist, bill martin begins coverage with a look at this unusual weather system. Now . Frank, it was. We do see thunder and lightning sometimes in august and september and october on the subtropical moisture moves north but the system, unusual in its aerial coverage. It covered all bay area counties, and lasted a long time. I backed the radar and imagery all the way back up to 2 am this morning. Watch what happens. Look at these Lightning Strikes. I have seen a wave come through like this in the bear area. We all have once every 2 to 3 years. Is going off at the 56 and look what comes right behind it. Another wave, equally as powerful at 6 am and get another wave, two and three waves slide through. Look at this. Hundreds and thousands of Lightning Strikes. Many fires started. An unusual event by just sheer numbers of Lightning Strikes and again, everybody was included. Nobody missed out on this Lightning Storm so you are seeing somes pictures. As i get up to t
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking at life from our exclusive sales force camera as we look west on this monday morning. Good morning everyone. It is monday, it is on the 17th. Wh awild weekend when it came to the weather. Im michelle griego. Im len kiese and we are having another potentially hot and stormy day. We have the forecast verse. Thats right. Tracking another round of thunderstorms that is a possibility as we head to morning. Due to the instability. And were looking at high temperatures that will continue. Our heatwave does continue as we look ahead to today. The highdef doppler, just a few i slated showers right now but you can see those lightning strikes overnight in the sacramento area with thunderstorms in sacramento area. As we head to morning, we are looking at the potential for a few more i said to thunderstorms as we had through our morning for our region. And because of that, we have that red flag warning that remains in effect for the bay area. That is in ef