Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o
About 37,000 customers. Across 15 Northern California counties that they could be losing power. Of the 15 counties 5 hour here in the bay, they are alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma. More than 4,000 customers in the bay area could be affected here. Napa county appears to be hit the hardest the most customers in the bay area affected are in napa some of the outages have already started but most of them are expected as we move through the overnight hours pg and e says the hot and dry weather combined with really high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to their electrical system that has the potential to start fires can you want to be on guard. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, Lawrence Karnow is in the Weather Center. Monitoring the red flag warning that goes into effect in about an hour but first we turn to kron fours gayle ong who is live tonight in where people are preparing for another round of shut off scale. Grant and vicki nearly 3300 pg e customers a
Continue. Throughout the evening and the overnight hours lets take a look now at the outage map from pgd so we can see exactly the affected areas. This is the future outlook of where the power will be going awful zoom in on the north bay napa county will be impacted the most. Heres the big sections that will be losing power again at some point overnight tonight. This includes all around calistoga and also just to the west of saint zooming down now into the east bay well see thats some parts of Contra Costa County will be losing power just to the west of danville and also in this section here just to the west of san ramon going down a little further south. Again this is the part that will be losing power at some point overnight tonight this is in the south bay. Current outages, well just take a quick look an or a purple triangle be showing us the outages that are power shut off related and so far none in the bay area were just waiting now for the power to be turned off. Now according to
Danger that continues to just be here with us. Half moon bay other coastal areas on the peninsula and upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay, all of us a in lake countys most of napa and then upper elevations of sonoma and marin counties all these areas affected by red flag warnings now extended through tomorrow night as winds gust as high as 40 Miles Per Hour in some of these areas and its not just the winds, but also the very low humidity to our current temperatures right now actually looking pretty comfortable id say get outside enjoy this morning before another warm afternoon around the corner right now were in the 50s 60s with one exception near santa rosa. At 49 degrees currently so your forecast today again going to be warm and again going to be windy course we need to know what traffic is looking like though still a little bit early i think for most of busy spots but where we sit right now robin the earlier folks can get out there the better job
As for the east bay inland east bay back to red flag warnings until the evening tomorrow in coastal san mateo up into the Santa Cruz Mountains also affected by winds gusting as high as 40 Miles Per Hour. Even with temperatures beginning to cool lets talk about some of the good stuff in your forecast first of all air quality has been great lately and that does continue this morning so expect abundant sunshine once that morning fog does burn off and temperatures not all that bad either under sunshine in livermore near at 70 now hayward pittsburgh fairfield also in the 60s while hanging out in the 50s and San Francisco berkeley and timber on couple of our more foggy spots this morning. I am talking what to expect for the rest of the week and that does include a very windy weekend on tap ahead of us first of all though lets get a check of traffic with robin. Thank you john traffic improving nicely looking pretty good out there on the roads a lot of that heavy stuff is out of your way were