Misty looking conditions too so a lot of drizzle showing up on our radar right now thats where youre seeing the speckled areas little more the darker green and thats where the white rain is hanging out that includes neighborhoods just south of fremont like mission, San Jose District al breakdown de kirchner youd write out a little bit now san jose had some rain just moments ago most of that rainfall now working its way down to south san jose blue hill Saratoga Los Gatos also a couple light sprinkles and then heading up towards woodside and palo alto youre also looking at a couple of spots of brief light showers, lets zoom out and you can see what weve still got heading our direction which is still on and off showers that will be working their way gradually or direction on into the afternoon today now embedded in some of this rain we do actually have the potential of some isolated spots of heavier rain, i mean take us out of the bay for second show you whats going on in reading some rai
And well obviously were still in the midst of some of them looking at her views behind me you can see skies are pretty gray overall. In fact some areas are looking at some dense fog, especially right along the coastline. This is your Half Moon Bay view right now definitely a wet roadway out there along highway one just as the rest of the bay area seeing. And youve got that fog a marine layer that is pushed in right along the coastline, what youre seeing in the speckled green those are drizzly areas a product of some of those low clouds that have pushed in across the region. Some of our rainiest of sponsor actually sitting further south in the bay area. We have been seeing showers around fremont those really cleared out moved southward now and now youre looking at a heavier band of rain right around san jose to alum rock. So if you are traveling in the south bay, not only is it wet from last night showers like the rest of us are seeing that youre getting some additional rainfall on top
Were talking about you know we get so accustomed to talking about how hot its going to be some going to be necessary so hot. But very dry and windy to breezy with all this as well and you heard party talking earlier about the red flag warning theres the Coverage Area the whole day. Waters edge to the inland valleys higher elevations, lower elevations and valleys am through 11 00am on monday gives us a good 24 hours plus on that warning period live shot coming in from half moon bay, russia deal with some cloud cover in even some localized fog in some areas to take the elevator fog a little bit. Bay area not too off the upper 50s going on the east bay shoreline 40s up to the north bay 54 San Francisco, 53 going on for can also for san jose giving you comparison sake, were a little cooler along the peninsula and up to the north bay. A little warmer in the east bays you can see by a couple degrees here. All right a wakeup forecast keeps some of those clouds and a little bit in the way that
Red flag warning is set to go into effect later this weekend to parts of the bay area are bracing for what is expected to be the strongest wind event of the year. Lets go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who is tracking the dangerous fire conditions certainly dont like to see an active fire were forecasting a potentially some of the strongest winds. Weve seen in quite some time at least this year maybe even longer, but certainly a possibility some firestorm events we continue to see this but. The winds out there right now in and around this active fire. The pope fire we continue to see some of those winds out of the west thats not a bad wind thats a more moist when thats developing right now. We saw as high as 80 Miles Per Hour this afternoon now to 8 to 10 Miles Per Hour. So just some light winds blowing now on likely going to see those winds pick up a more out of a westerly wind as we head toward tomorrow, but. Then things begin to change and so thats what were concerned about
Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can