Lot of us have had these shut for its nothing new but while we have seen it. There are no less frustrated as for sure many residents now are a bit more prepared kron fours dan kerman was in santa rosa, he has that part of the story tonight. This is a typical intersection that youre seeing east of santa rosas downtown lights are out stop signs in place, but just one of the many frustrations for those who are living in the power outage areas. I think this is going to be the new norm. Santa rosa residents have seen it all before pacific gast and electric shutting off power so adverse weather conditions dont down power lines and start a wildfire after living through this 2017 2018 2019. We know exactly what to do. But knowing what to do doesnt mean santa rosa residents are happy about it i blame lot of the staff on kg me i really do. Sorry but i do. Theyve had since 2017 to get their act together this man and his family run santa rosas urban pizza company. He says covid19 has already been
The Santa Cruz Mountains in the oakland area right the Oakland Hills above a 1000 feet or so the diablo range also looking at some very gusty winds there and that will be the case some of these gusts of 25 to maybe 45 Miles Per Hour maybe the gusting higher than that in spots are going to see that especially over the top of the mountains very very gusty winds right latest on the computer models you can see youve got a little bit of a breeze out there in fact a little bit of a sea breeze returned today but not for long all of a sudden we get that offshore wind look at the colors rolling in the bay area and these are down the urban areas got 2030 mile an hour winds down a place like Petaluma Santa Rosa also calistoga sonoma up on the mountain tops. It will be a lot more gusting than that of course we are primed with fire with treasure record breaking heat, so certainly some dangerous weather ahead as fire danger is going to be running extremely high. Thank you or some other big element t
And we have elevated fire danger a red flag warning for high fire danger goes into effect at 10 00 tonight. That will be in effect until 8 00 wednesday morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. Wind gusts will bring drier air, warmer air to the bay area, flowing offshore. And as a result of that, that raises the fire danger. And a wind advisory will be in effect from 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow to 11 00 p. M. Tomorrow. That will be mainly for the Higher Elevations of the north bay with wind gusts ranging from 45 to 65 Miles Per Hour. You can see how the wind gusts will pick up overnight tonight and continue through much of the day tomorrow before they start to i taer off a little bit. With all that, we still have really poor air quality. The next two days will be spare the air days, giving us a string of 23 consecutive spare the air days. And we cant even be serve yet that air quality will improve by thursday. Poor air will be with us tomorrow and wednesday. Thank you, spencer.
We are monitoring a live update from the cal fire at the base camp for the kincaid fire and santa rosa. We are also waiting on a press conference with pg e officials in the next half hour with an update on the Current Power shut off and another one that is on the way. We will bring you that live as it happens. Good evening. Back east the school kids have the snow days. Today around the bay area students had something you might call a power shut off day. That part of our story. Reporter the entire Pacifica School district is closed for the day. The superintendent made the tough call largely because of traffic. Yes traffic. With power knocked off to the stoplights getting up and down the main road in town highway one was a pain. Even with crews directing traffic it was still backed up for much of the morning. It has been nonstop like this all day. It will continue for the rest of the day. Reporter besides not having power at the schools it would be hard for a Police Officer firefighter o
Near windsor. Tim . Well, life is returning to normal here in towns like windsor, with the winds down, containment on the fire lines is up. Neighborhoods are opening up again. Now earlier today, we did find some folks who had never left the fire zone. Well before Evacuation Orders had been lifted, windsor area wineries were busy with workers. Theyve been given temporary passes that allowed them to check and prep their facilities. For all the damage dunavin yards, somehow seem immune to the flames, and there is an explanation. The violence are so moist, and with the surrounding ground not cluttered with leaves, well, fires tend to run out of here. It works as a great firebreak. If you look at the divisions hit by the fire front, you see one, two rows that just dried out and near re stopped right there. Windsor told to leave followed through with those instructions. The blaseys, who grow 15 acres of chardonnay grapes were ready to leave if they had to, but they stayed. All of our vineyar