National forest. At least three homes and several cars have burned. Thankfully, so far, no reported is injuries. Here at home, hot weather means fire danger. It also means the potential for planned Power Outages from pg e. Last year that caused a lot of problems, especially for small businesses. We are joined from los gatos on how theyre handling this, robert. Rememb reporter when temperatures start hitting about 100 degrease, ydegreases, you dont have to tell cal fire about fire deng ir. The white hearst fire that burned in 2008 started from a lightning strike. One of several lightningcaused fires that cal fire responded to that year. Today fire crews at the alma station reviewed the Response Plan for hotweather lightning storms. The unit has to be ready, because unlike other fires, lightning can strike in remote areas and in more than one spot. We may have to split the crews and a few more firefighters on the other fire. Whether its multiple strikes, lightning strikes with precipitat
Meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez meibrys e u and tracking of this heat wave, whats the latest hey there catherine and this is just a sneak peek of whats to come because the heat wave wont officially begin until friday morning. All the way through wednesday night so it has been upgraded from an excessive heat watch 20 excessive heat warning away from the coast and away from the bay area coastline going to track a heat advisory and already seeing extremely warm to hot temperatures not just along the coast but far inland valleys as well, triple digit heat right now in antioch in livermore a 101 degrees about 15 degrees above average today nearly 40 degrees warmer than the coats happen beginning that cool sea breeze influence. Youre in the mid 60s, but downtown San Francisco, right now in the upper 70s still tracking double digit warming out there right now very warm air mass and its only going to get harder from here because we could see widespread triple digit heat as you make your way in
Blistering heat ahead. The temperatures and warnings you need to hear about coming up. In concord, an excessive heat warning come tomorrow but it is already hot outside. Stanford sends conditioning message to most undergrads. Classes will begin online so youll have to stay home. An emotional night. Conditioning girl reunited with her family. Abc7 news starts right now. Skormicorching temperatures about to bake most of the bay area. We have conditioning spare the air alert to contend with. So how hot will it get . Lets get right over to sandhya patel. Were talking about extreme heat coming up, even hotter than it was today which is why the excessive heat warning is issued until 9 00 p. M. Until parts of the south bay, east bay, Solano County and even parts of the north bay. We have an excessive heat warning for tomorrow afternoon through saturday evening. 110 degrees. Heat illnesses are certainly possible with that kind of heat. We have heat advisory for tomorrow morning through tomorro
And antioch. Lots of 90s for hayward and san jose and even in San Francisco, downtown San Francisco, into the lower 80s. Hot stretch will continue, especially inland. Look at all of these days into the weekend and next week for monday, tuesday and wednesday. For tomorrow most areas within this range are at 95 to 108 degrees. Excessive heat warning for the inland areas. The Santa Clara Valley and the north bay mountains, this from 11 00 a. M. Friday to 9 00 p. M. Wednesday and then a heat advisory for the areas in yellow basically tomorrow from 11 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. On friday. The highs for tomorrow, places like livermore going way up above 100 degrees and the heat will continue to stick around into the weekend. We will have more on your weekend forecast coming up. Now to Southern California where firefighters are battling a massive outofcontrol fire. The lake fire broke out yesterday afternoon and spread out across 11,000 acres and is mourning north of l. A. In the Angeles National
We have heat advisory for tomorrow morning through tomorrow night for the bay shoreline, north bay, the San Francisco bay shoreline as well. In addition, live doppler 7 is tracking moisture that is moving in from former hurricane alita. We are seeing the moisture moving in adding to the mugginess factor. It will be even hotter tomorrow. In concord with more on the dangerous heat expected in the east bay. Temps were hot thursday in concord but expected to get even hotter friday. I dont like this weather. I prefer the winter. Ive always preferred the winters. It is what it is. I wish it was cooler. Reporter honest, yes, but that does not change the fact that hotter temperatures are coming. On friday it could reach 109 in concord. Really, 109. Reporter the high temperatures are relaxing to some but dangerous to others. I worry about my husband. He had conditioning heart attack conditioning few years ago and that makes the heat really dangerous for him. Reporter conditioning reason why car