Advisories or excessive heat warnings but still looking at temperatures soaring in the afternoon. Lets get to our red flag warning. It is in effect until 8 00 on wednesday for areas highlighted in red, so that is for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and we are watching the winds. They are gusting up to 60 to 61 miles an hour in Higher Elevations this morning. It is a big concern for bius an also low relative humidity values. A wind advisory for the north bay mountains until 11 00 tonight, with possible downed trees and power lines with these strong winds. Lets talk about our temperatures. No longer looking at those incredibly hot temperatures. Were looking hot, just not as hot as yesterday. Mid80s in San Francisco and low 90s in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and triple digit heat expected for concord at 103. I will continue to go down through the week. Details on that with the future cast winds taking you through today into tomorrow coming up pick lets check in with gianna
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Extreme smoke just really trapped at the surface here in the bay area. So we have very unhealthy air to hazardous air quality this morning. You can see those purple, red dots indicating this unhealthy to hazardous air quality from redwood city to the trivalley and up through concord as well. Walnut creek. Around the oakland area. Into San Francisco. Very unhealthy to hazardous air quality up through lark spur and san rafael and the north bay. And into petaluma. San rafael and for santa rosa. Not only dealing with those smoky skies, we have the fog. So Poor Visibility this morning near zero for petaluma. Down to three quarters of a mile at halfmoon bay. And a mile and a quarter at sfo. Looking ata mile a lf kland hayward as e. Rmora densfo and in safr ea unti 0a. M. What you can expect for the weekend coming up. But gianna, we are dealing with that extreme smoke and those foggy conditions. Hows the commute . Yeah, its certainly affecting the drive this morning. Were seeing some slow spe
It is also a foggy and hazy start to the day with patty drizzle as well as along the coast and the bay. Heading to the afternoon, near normal daytime highs in the upper 80s around 90 in concord and livermore. Low 80s and san jose. The upper 60s in san jose several disco and low 70s in oakland. We talk more about the heat advisories and excessive heat warnings for the Holiday Weekend, coming up. Speaking of the Holiday Weekend, we see later conditions on the freeways and for the most part. That is good news. There are a couple of hotspots. Westbound 37, you have brake lights and for the commute working out of the east bay into marin county. I vallejo. You have a slow ride westbound. No accidents. Just a bit busy. We are seeing slightly slower speeds westbound 580 into the past. It is actually pretty clear out of tracy picked the drive times are pretty much in the green for all of the major freeways. 21 minutes to a five through 680. Changes for mass transit. I will have that in the next
Francisco and mid 70s for oakland. So that smoke forecast still showing that smoke pushing across our region. Well talk more about the weekend forecast coming up. Gianna . Good morning, taking a look at the roadways right now, metering lights are on at the bay bridge toll plaza. So things are getting busy there. Also looking at another bridge here the Golden Gate Bridge, it is a foggy start to your commute out of marin county. So just a headsup if you are traveling from marin city to the Golden Gate Bridge. Limited visibility might be an issue this morning. Elsewhere the Altamont Pass also one of the busy spots westbound 580. Its a slow and go ride out of tracy getting on the 580 connector from 205. No accidents thats the good news but the drive time still right around 30 minutes to go from 205 over to 680. New crash reported on the nimitz freeway. Ill have that coming up in my next report. Len . Happening today, positive trends in slowing the spread of covid19 add up to good news for