Together and unfortunately creating high fire danger we will see golden gate into effect later this evening. Usually during the overnight hours you start to see the humidity levels coming up but that will not be the case over the next couple of days. So we are highlighting all of these areas above 1,000 feet especially where the humidity will be lowest and the winds will be highest as we also are looking at parts of the east bay, the Santa Cruz Mountains where we may have gusts in our upper elevations up to 50 Miles Per Hour during this time frame. We look what is going on now. So far the winds speeds have been fairly light but measured some wind gusts made it up to 28 miles an hour in parts of the east bay. San francisco had a gust of 22 and something we will monitor tonight because a lot of our computer models showing that we will see some high wind speeds and its not going to be as high in some of the valleys but our upper elevations will have to closely monitor those areas. We will
Our winds picking up today. If youre about to head out the door, get ready for the morning and maybe youre heading to the b. A. R. T. Station, in the low 60s. We reach into the mid80s already by noon. We know its going to be a hot day as we plan for that red flag warning. Any fires that spark could spread quickly. Make sure youre always aware of whats going on. Well talk more about this as well as whats ahead for the weekend. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Not bad, kari. There is still something going on i thought would clear by now. The Silicon Valley map that we typically show, scattered incidents there. The only one were worried about is north 101 at the lawrence off ramp. Still closed from the northbound side. Continue north to fair oaks and that will be your option. You have to head back and loop back up. Everything else moves very nicely. Back to you. High fire danger is back and communities across the bay area now in this waiting game to see if their power may be cut
Neighborhood to me itself. Fires are burning. Just like a typical home after glass fire. Home, is there land in between at last check it has contained 2500 acres, of course those them, is it a suburb. Its your typical numbers will grow. Also battlinboysen and subdivision. Theres not even a half a plot between the homes. Its your standard subdivision shady fire. We do have Live Team Coverage and with that comes the for you on the dangerous challenge of those homes being so close. Situation playing out in the north bay. We want to thank you for joining you can see the guys standing in between the homes really kind of us early this morning in the bay looking at that natural gas as we bring you the breaking news thats happening right now. Spot, that is really, really im marcus washington. Going from where those and im laura garcia. Firefighters are standing. But i think from what im lets check in with cierra seeing it looks like there are about six houses right next to johnson. Look at thi
Were going to check the traffic getting out of these areas because these are massive evacuations that were talking about with mike in just a moment. And, of course, the weather conditions play such an Important Role with what firefighters are up against. Out live to today in the bays Cierra Johnson live in the neighborhood of santa rosa. The last half hour that we joined you, there was a house behind you and now its gone. Reporter these houses are going down very quickly. In the last five minutes there was a breeze that came by, you could see the smoke overwhelm you. I want to direct your eyes to that pickup truck. It caught my attention, almost unrecognizable through all of the smoke, but the house that the driver belongs to completely gone. Just a shell of what it was this time yesterday. I can tell you it is getting hot because of these flames. You see a lot of those embers. Those, too, have picked up. These embers are starting to pick up since the last time i spoke to you. And the
The weather. Announcer todays weather is brought to you by the makers of nondrowsy 24 hour claritin. Live claritin clear. All right. Lets look ahead to your weekend. We start off with saturday weve got a much nicer day in the southeast after so much rain record heat continues in the rockies. A fire risk out west wet in the Pacific Northwest sunday, sunday autumnal warmth in the northeast. Much cooler in the plains. And the fire risk unfortunately continues out west thats whats going on across good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Lets take a look at our high temperatures for today. The last, very nice and comfortable day before some high heat comes in. Well see our temperatures in oakland reaching 73. 78 in palo alto. And 85 today in antioch. But then as we go into the weekend, there will be high fire danger for a lot of our bay area hills, especially in the north bay. And there will be a high concern as were going to also have some hot temperatures extending into early next week.