Our dangerous heat wave arrived today, and its only going to get hotter tomorrow. Were tracking the recordbreaking temperatures. Excessi creating several concerns. One, health. Two, slow business traffic. Three, potential power shutoffs. Raising money for the Boulder Creek volunteer fire department. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im indion lim. Imatcri is on, another scorr tomorrow. Lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking even hotter temperatures tomorrow, eric and dion. Right now, a warm night, 79 in the city. 80 san jose. 77 in oakland. The air quality is moderate across the entire region, however, if you have been smelling a pretty strong, new smell of smoke, there is in fre start today, the creek fire. It did send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. There are no new fires in the bay area tonight, but there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere from that fire in Fresno County. Future tracker temperatures, get your workout in early by 8
Bay area as well creating more moderate air. Right now its the lack of fog and warm temperatures. 69 in oakland. 66 in santa rosa. Were in the 70s in concord. 70 in livermore. 85 in los gatos. Half moon bay 55 degrees. Compared to yesterday, already 6 to 12 degrees of warming, that sun comes up at 6 44, thats important because we get our coolest temperatures about an hour after sunrise. We have about another two hours of cooling to go to lose maybe a degree or two. After that, numbers coming up. Good air quality so far for the most part, except for fremont and down by santa cruz, where it is moderate and of course our excessive heat warnings continues until 9 00 tomorrow with our heat advisory along the coast and once again, we are looking at potential records so a spare the air alert today, poor air quality inland and south bay, by 9 00, well into the 80s. Look at 1 00, we are 107 san ramon. How about 109 in gilroy, by 5 00 and well look for another very toasty day for labor day. Well
Im liz kreutz. Today is the 20th straight spare the air alert for the bay area and lets get right to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at what we can expect today. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. Hi, everyone. More sizzling temperatures, certainly records will be shattered. We look at live doppler 7, nothing to speak about here. As we widen the view, thats a Lightning Strike just north of shaver lake from the fire there, the creek fire. Those pyro cumulus clouds high in the atmosphere creating their own weather and you can see the smoke by reno there, looking at some very poor air quality in the mountains. Our air quality expected to go down as well. 67 san mateo. It is 78 in daly city. 55 Half Moon Bay with 70s in san rafael. 60s in the north bay. Low 70s in the south bay. 7 to 12 degrees warmer than yesterday at this our. Air quality in the moderate category for most and looking at some of that smoke to drift into the bay area on some lighter winds. Excessive heat warning u
Only hot temperatures today, even warmer weather tomorrow and then to finish out the Holiday Weekend, were going to find increasing fire dangers. Lets talk about where we are right now. Temperatures are well into the 90s, its 104 in san ramone right now, 101 in santa rosa. 95 in san jose, 95 in oakland. 95 in red wood city. The city is warm with a temperature of 85 degrees. Excessive heat warnings and advisers are officially in effect right now and this heat is with us for several days. These will last until mon wthe whole entire Holiday Weekend. So lets go hour by hour. Later on this evening, t 70s an. So it is a warm night with little relief overnight. We will stay in the 60s and 70s to start the day tomorrow. That means tomorrow afternoon, hotter than today. Well look at those numbers. The fire danger and the full accuweather forecast. We will see you then, thank you. In some parts of the bay area, we can not head to the water over the weekend due to wildfire damage. Because of the
And warnings will expire at 9 00 p. M. So its not only the heat we are tracking. Its also our air quality. Air quality right now is moderate across the entire region. But were going fluctuate, again, between moderate and poor the next couple days. So the spare the air days have been extended. We have heat, air quality issues and by thend of the weekend, well have high fire danger. Well talk about it all in the accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Thank you. In some parts of the bay area we cannot head to the water over labor day. Lake berryessa is closed including tomales bay and the seashore in marin county, all the beaches in pacifica, the fitzgerald marine preserve and bonitas creek reserve and santa cruz beaches are only open for a few hours each day. Beaches that are open are popular spots. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan talked to people who headed to Stinson Beach. Reporter Stinson Beach in the north bay was a hot spot for those trying to escape this weekends recordbreaking ba