Orinda with more dan. Well this is literally the calm before the storm right now there is absolutely no wind at this point but theyre expecting gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour in this region and other regions throughout the bay area beginning tomorrow night that coupled with possibly triple digit heat has firefighters on alert. As the sun bear down on Contra Costa County friday winds remain calm with temperatures in the 70s. But come this weekend a recipe for disaster high temps low humidity and winds gusting to 50 Miles Per Hour. Looking at very high fire danger and as you point out. We got an awful lot of dry fuel out thats just waiting to burn it was last october when Contra Costa County experienced similar conditions. And had a fire siege, 10 major fires and 15 hours including one that jumped the carquinez bridge. Sleep with one eye open. Those who live in Contra Costa County have been through this before and are ready, we know or pc is and all of our personal documents and should be
Youre seeing red flag warnings posted there expecting to win 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour humidity dropping down to about 20 to 30 as we head into sunday morning, maybe even lower than that as we get into monday, strongest winds will occur above a 1000 feet in the north bay expected some 35 maybe some 50 mile an hour gusts, there humidity dropping down between 1025 so very dry conditions around the bay area. Heres the latest forecast on the winds weve have mainly a westerly wind over the past few days to bring us that nice clear now overnight tonight things begin to change. Front goes through and High Pressure begins to build in behind it you start to see that northerly component beginning to kick in nothing really strong just yet it will be breezy especially over the mountain tops and then as we get into late saturday night early on sunday morning that will be probably one of the peak of the gust of wind you can see those pouring in some of the red the yellow beginning to show up there som
The news station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at night taking a live look over downtown San Francisco tonight, beautiful, yes, but we are bracing for a weekend heat wave that is expected to be felt across the bay area. Good evening. Everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Justine Waldman in for Vicki Liviakis tonight, the hot and dry weather could put us at risk for some fire sparking again over the weekend, a red flag warning is going into Effect Tomorrow here we go this is a look at how hot is expected to get tomorrow. Not really all that bad but saturday isnt the worst of it not by any stretch. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is with us now for more on what the brace for large yeah, this really just the beginning tomorrow, yeah, not to bet is to get toasty inland 90s there. Then we get into sunday, we really start to crank up the heat near triple digits in spots inland by sunday, 80s a few 90s even and around the bay 70s even out toward th
Tonight, right this is true and also getting much hotter tomorrow to just kind of like a late summer day today but boy taking the gloves off by tomorrow, good morning morning, good morning, everybody. Live shot comes in from the golden gate not much of a breeze, although we expect an offshore wind to develop even noticeably here as we go into the weekend live shot coming in from the bay bridge toll plaza with the sun just about to join us over the east bay hills Temperature Check right now we have those lower 60s lining up the east bay shoreline up to the north bay, a mixture of 50s and 60s for comparisons sake we little warmer up there in the north and a good chunk of the east bay around midday, were just a touch cooler today not getting on to that red flag warning, heres the Coverage Area right over the east bay hills of those winds being offshore about 20 to 35 Solano County will be hit particularly hard which will be showing you this all kicking in about 9 oclock tonight being with
Is in effect this weekend for parts of the bay area strong winds and triple digit heat putting fire crews on high alert at the peak of fire season. Here in the bay area. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman were less than 24 hours away from a heat wave that expected to bring strong offshore winds and triple digit heat to parts of the bay area. Not only high temperatures but also the heightened fire danger thats coming for parts of the east and north base. We have Team Coverage on this weekends coverage on this weekends events and kron fours charles concerns there. But we begin now with kron fours meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez whos standing by with when the red flag warning goes into effect and just how hot it is going to be good afternoon. Risa i yes a little bit of good and bad news, the bad news is that our fire weather watch has been upgraded to a red flag warning. But the good news is that instead of it starting saturday morning it wont sta