Over her on Climate Change just come to the state of california. Observe it with your own eyes. Governor gavin newsom not mincing words governor says california is in a Climate Crisis the terrible toll of the states wildfires becoming more evident. Block after block of destruction and now at least 19 people dead in what has become a historic year for California Wildfires than 2 dozen fires burning along the west coast pushing mass amounts of smoke into the bay area the skies still as we are seeing some of the worst air quality on earth. Thank you for joining us tonight at 6 im pam moore and im ken wayne lets get straight to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow morris theres a lot of very unhealthy air still out there yeah we just cant makes it outlawed the smoke. Actually made his way back in the bay area couple of days ago now has mixed all the way down to the surface what we need is some way to kick it further out of the area, but right now not see much in the way of wind at all in fa
Cleanest days moving forward. Heres a look at the north bay. Look at this. We have napa and ukiah and sensitive groups and everybody else, okay. Until you get to san rafael, oakland and then look at livermore and go down to redwood city, fremont, san jose. Just keeps getting worse as you head south. All the way down to the monterey bay. Heres a look at sfo this morning. Fog in the north bay and smog for the rest of us. Temperatures going to be a little bit warmer as the upper levels like they did yesterday continue to get brighter as less smoke is up there. Ill let you know where less smoke is down where we breathe, coming up. This is day 29 of our spare the air and a doctor told one of our reporters its like smoking eight cigarettes, even if youre a nonsmoker. That is the kind of stuff youre putting your lungs through every day. Amy hollyfield with how people are continuing to cope with this bad air. Amy . Reggie, another day to keep your mask wardrobe you have your pandemic mask and
County that wasnt there yesterday so we can be thankful that we are making progress albeit slow progress so far and as james mentioned still in the midst of a recordbreaking streak of spare the air alert days, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with concord and pittsburgh each at 60 degrees. Oakland at 61 right now while San Francisco berkeley much of the north bay hanging out in the 50s to get things started. Robin. Thank you have some trouble spots and lots of heavy traffic to talk about crews are wrapping up a car fire on vasco road right now at one point we had all southbound lanes closed on southbound vasco at the south end of the last week Harris Reservoir but it looks like theyve just released traffic which is good news for people coming out of iran Discovery Bay brentwood trying to get south into livermore but still a lot of heavy traffic there are residual delays leading up to the scene we still have an overturned crash active in san leandro 80 south before to 38. Theyr
Yesterday and that is definitely a nice little shift look at this lightning up his first colors go on the map which is a very noticeable difference that deep deep red now right there clumped up on the eastern end of the Central Valley were worst of air quality of settle down ahead of the Sierra Nevada foothills deep here across the bay area indicating poor conditions which weve become familiar with for nearly 30 days to spare the air alerts now and then conditions up in portions of the north bay for the first time in multiple days, so these are some positive changes working your way in a good direction and will continue to slowly do that for out the rest of the week eventually setting us up for a better weekend air quality wise. And what we have this past weekend. Still winds light enough that we are seeing a light on shore breeze pushing in just a bit more of that smoke thats hovering out in the pacific and to light to be seeing much of our air quality just being pushed out of the reg
Get with especially some difference is noticeable in marine county where first sign of yellow is now showing up indicating moderate air quality the further inland you get and eventually closer to the sierra you go. Well thats the worst of it we still do have multiple fires burning in the Sierra Nevada certainly putting up a lot of smoke out that direction. 50s and 60s for our current temperatures, a cool start get outside with that light jacket ready to go and then maybe not spend too much time out there despite our increases in sunshine and less hayes we still do have poor air. So definitely stay inside more so the knot on this tuesday. 70s and 80s for todays daytime highs more in your forecast is still ahead. Robin. Thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge commute which actually looks a little bit better was never a bad drive into San Francisco. We just have a crowd at the toll plaza and its been off and on its still slow that be on west grand but thinning out a little bit a