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Across our bridges, its a very thin marine layer, but its sitting right at the surface of the watch for some lower visibility, little bit towards the coast in San Francisco at the golden gate and in pockets right along the coastline. Most of us though its nice and clear as youre getting out there now air quality is also continuing to be pretty clear with good conditions for almost all the entirety of the bay area again today temperatures are nice and cool winds, nice and calm so not all that bad right now were in the 50s for Alameda Oakland and hayward at 59 degrees little cooler up in the north bay where weve got some 40s in petaluma and santa rosa, looking hour into the afternoon daytime highs in the 70s and 80s nice finish to this monday. Robin sounds good. Thank you for the update John Elliotts of the morning commute starting off with a bridge check, lets head over to the bay bridge. We have a dense fog advisory in place this morning that was issued by chp you can see some of that
A record breaking heat last week now expect uh they see you can see some fog hanging out across the bay making. Visibility on our bridges a little bit lower we saw last week when were so fog free so bay bridge as well as Golden Gate Bridge to have an impact their air quality is good all across the board across the bay if you head out to the central valley, couple of moderate pockets to know this morning. But all in all a pretty solid start to this morning, were back in the 40s and 50s for current temperatures, doubling your at 53 right now oakland and concord 58 few 40s up in the north bay, especially cool up there. And later on today 70s and 80s for almost all of our daytime highs, ill get to that still to come robin all right, thank you john were checking in on traffic. We want to update your commute into San Francisco. And it is packed right now at the bay bridge toll plaza so if you need to get into San Francisco. You got to have to sit in this line so make sure you get out there e
Population to 4. Thats a 25 increase. That might not sound like a lot. But when this virus starts taking off, it takes off quickly. That case rate put San Francisco in the orange and the hospitalization rate jumping from 21 to 37 patients is in the red tier. Heres what the pause means, indoor pools, bowling alleys, and gym locker rooms will stay closed. Restaurants and houses of worship will stay at 25 capacity. Schools however are still a go with approval. This grill in the financial district that planned to reopen at 50 capacity will continue to stay closed because of the pause. Managing partner of water bar calls the pause on increasing restaurant capacity to 50 disappointing but understandable. Its a little bit of a set back to us from a pure Business Economic standpoint. Also of concern for businesses that have taken advantage of Outdoor Dining and the shared spaces program, the changing weather. Heat lamps are up now but wont stand a chance against the rain. Sometimes these parti
Thats exactly where we are so the week starting off coming through for us still warm, but we will take it over the record breaking heat we had last week. Nice view over Sales Force Tower from suture tower this morning little bit of fog noticeable out there in the distance are right behind me right by the bay bridge there overall though most of us are starting out under sunshine just those pockets right along the coastline and through the golden gate that are starting things off with some fog, good air quality continues today which is a nice break from the hazy conditions that we also were so familiar with along with the heat. Temperatures are currently in the 50s with hayward san jose Alameda Oakland and berkeley 58, north bay temperatures some of our coolest only in the 40s. Later today, it will be 70s for San Francisco and oakland while san jose, a nice day time high of 82. Robin. Thank you john we have several slow spots in San Francisco starting off with our overturned crash that s