This weekend extreme weather is not only causing fires but Power Outages to. Pg e and grid operators say be prepared with the ongoing heat wave. More rolling blackouts could be on the way. Rolling blackouts are not needed tonight. Officials that we could expect them between tomorrow and wednesday. Bill martin joins us now with the latest. It really is. Especially inland where the excessive heat warning in red is going to stay in effect through wednesday. All of this area, including parts of san jose are going to be under an excessive heat warning for the next 48 to 72 hours. The yellow area is an advisory that was to be dropped at about 9 00 tonight. That was extended until 9 00 tomorrow night. These yellow areas, you guys are under heat advisory as we go through tomorrow through the entire day. It should be dropped after that. The fire danger is definitely high. It is hot and we have had lightning strikes. It is fire weather because firestarter easy. It is not firestorm whether. Dont
Be a chance they could be in the restaurants. Dark. Final call comes from cal iso, invited lawmakers and media to see demonstration of safe practices. I hope we get regrouped, that the agency that watches the governor or Health Officials can see we can do this safely, that power grid. Threat of lightning continues. Many people were woken up by the we are equipped with the guidelines they gave us to do extremely rare conditions. This safely. And open our salons, stimulate this Lightning Strike in hayward from early this morning. The kmreconomy, get us off the thats unbelievable. Likely caused dozens of fires unemployment list. Bay area salons are currently allowed to operate but only across the bay area. Two of the biggest, milpitas and outdoors which many stylists say doesnt allow them to offer all services. Stay with us for complete brentwood. Meteorologist rob to explain the ton thats going on right now. Coverage on the pandemic and how it affects you, were putting to the the highlig
Because tomorrow. Thats when the heat is really going to crank up lets take a look at temperatures out there right now tracking widespread low to mid 70s for most of the north bay in the low to mid 80s for the tribe valleys even san jose cooling down to 78 degrees mid 70s right now for oakland and hayward 81 degrees as you step outside right now low 80s for those of you in redwood city. But you cant beat the beach in fact lets take a look at temperatures right now that the San Francisco peninsula coastline. Downtown San Francisco in the mid 60s, most of us dont even need a sweater if youre heading out for your thursday night Half Moon Bay, though rebel 59 degrees out there currently because of that cool sea breeze, but fortunately this is going to be our saving grace with the heat wave wind speeds going to be about 20 per hour or less but just keep in mind even with a light sea breeze or any light breeze for that matter in the coming days with this hot and dry weather heading our way i
Skies as severe storms rolled through the bay area a lot of folks getting an Early Morning wakeup call. This is one of the many videos flooding our newsroom from you or kron 4 viewers, thank you so much for all of it. You can see more pictures and videos on our website thats kron 4 dot com if you have something called the shows hey guess what we want to see it as well all you have to do go to the website click on the the reported tab which is under the about us tab right there on our home screen. And we could be seeing more lightning strikes into tomorrow, the National Weather service is extending the red flag warning until monday morning at 11 00am and but to the bay area of course is under this warning with a red flag warning comes an increased risk of wildfires that could start near where that dry hits. And those lightning strikes the spark a number of fires across the area in Santa Clara County the marsh fire which is a total of 3 fires has burned more than 850 acres. Back away shu
Rob is tracking all the conditions for us tonight. Rob . Yeah. It was a really amazing sight to see this this morning. Perhaps you woke up like many of us. We began to see these lines of very intense thunderstorms. Severe thunderstorm warnings in literally more than 2,000 lightening strikes around the bay area. We have seen a few showers here offshore. The connection is still there offshore. Just offshore to the south. This location will move to the north as we head into the overnight hours. As we head towards tomorrow morning, we will increase the shower coverage with another chance of thundershowers like you saw today. Same conditions in place tomorrow. The reason why the red flag until 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Wouldnt be surprised to maybe see that expanded a little bit later for north bay. More record breaking heat, too. We could see temperatures as high as 108 degrees tomorrow around livermor. Were talking heat and air quality. Were seeing localized smoke advisorie advisories. Temper