The worst air quality in the entire world believe it or not experts say it is actually worse today than yesterday look at this video this is what it looked like just hours ago pure hasan gray skies, according to purple air dot com. The particulate matter in the air around the San Francisco bay reach the 200 to 300 parts per million range which is considered very unhealthy. Heres a look at purple airs air quality map of bay area, including San Francisco, the east bay, the peninsula and the north bay are in that purple range that is the worst its considered unhealthy for everyone. But especially dangerous for people with prior Health Conditions as he had a little farther east and south the air quality gets a little bit better, but you have to really get outside of the immediate bay area out there in santa cruz mountains, its bad but not quite as bad even in the central valley. Lots of red and purple is out there. As we know the wildfires and weather conditions are combining to create thi
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
Percent contained. Will continue to monitor to the fire situation in both counties. Catherine and triple digits in the east bay. Kron 4s brian van aken is live outside our studio with the latest on this heat wave. Brian . Reporter catherine, at temperatures are way up this afternoon. And even and the triple digits as you mentioned. The reading for san for cisco and 91 degrees. The sea breeze has began to kick up and that will cool things down for a little bit. At least for San Francisco. Reporter 96 to prodigious as you can see. 103 degrees. The 90s for oakland. Upper 90s in san jose. These temperatures running about 10 to 20 degrees. Above where we should be for this time of year. That is pretty hot stuff. Which will continue for another day. For he advisories in effect from 7 00 tonight and into tomorrow for the next several days it will be a long stretch of weather. Catherine to keep up with the weather and beat the heat. Download the kron 4 weather app its available for both i phon
Up a plume of smoke that is vise from the bay area. It may impact impact air quality. That is what we will track tonight. We will show you how we we get out of the worst of the heat, we will shift focus to smoke. How locals are honoring the late queenan through british style. Straka wildfire burning 30 miles from the west shore of lake tahoe, prompting evacuatio. Sending and also almost volcanic almost volcanic plume into the air. Mosquito fires burning betn i80 and highway 50. Lol e answering the call for help. Reporter firefighters from n francisco, Alameda County and here in san jose are all working all working on strike teams assigned to the mosquito fire wh exploded in size today. Mostly e to record high temperatures. Extreme behavior, that is how fs are dried describing conditionsa massive ash plume rising high ae the fire visible from tahoe to san francisco. With afternoon ts over 100, the mosquito fire more fire more than doubled in size on thursday. Now mapped more thn 13,000
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