Windy monday as you step outside it is probably the first thing youll notice seconds will be just how mild it is outside as well so kind of anoodd start to this december monday morning. You look outside from seat hurt our shows the Crystal Clear skies weve been in the midst of throughout the course of your morning, no fog is these are offshore winds keeping marine layer pushed away from us Sonoma Petaluma Half Moon Bay napa some of your windiest spots right now and some of the same areas in the midst of red flag warnings temperatures are mild in the 60s for Oakland Alameda in hayward the lay how in berkeley are in the upper 50s along with San Francisco santa rosa youre at 61. And later today weve got 70s for some of these areas high fire danger as we do see strong winds paired with all the dry grasses and vegetation that we still do have red flag warnings through 05 00pm tonight. Rebecca all right, thank you john yes, it is definitely been windy on the bay area roads and now were seein
This month. It is a record. We can tell you that that breaks a record of 14 days, you have to go all the way back to 2018 during the camp fire for that. And that 24 days in a row were going to be 25 days tomorrow and likely could be extended past that because of this bad air. Often the distance is downtown San Francisco. But its barely visible like the ash that sits atop cars the smoky skies here are a grayish white making for another day of unhealthy air quality. Its actually worse today in terms of breezing that it was yesterday thats much worse today and i have to masks and not now thats how bad the says in fact their quality was worse on thursday because a layer of fog that kept the smoke aloft wednesday. Dissipated the air is mixing were down to ground weve weve weve lost that you know protection yesterday so were seeing that the readings of really jumped up in the bay area as the air mixes down bringing all of the smoke with it and while some people were still out and about. Many
Hour in the Higher Elevations. We have a dry cold front pushing through, kicking up the winds. We have a red flag warning in effect now all the way until 8 00 on wednesday due to these a dry and gusty offshore winds. There is low relative humidity values for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains today into tomorrow morning and we have a wind advisory that will be in effect for the north bay mountains for today, at a possible chance of downed trees and power lines. It will be hot but not quite as hot as yesterday. Were looking at mid 80s in San Francisco and low 90s in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and dealing with triple digit heat in concord. 103 for a high in concord and because of the extreme heat, still for inland locations, concord is opening up a cooling center at the Concord Senior Center from 1 00 until 6 00, to give some relief to people, so go out there if you need some safety from these hot temperatures. It is from 1 00 until 6 00 in concord.
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Talking about our high fire danger and a spare the air alert with our hazy and smoky skies. There is a lot to get to. The heat advisory is along the coast and the bay for today. We have excessive heat warnings in effect for the rest of the bay area. All the highlighted areas in pink are under the excessive heat warning. We have a spare the air alert that remains in effect and we continue with smoky and hazy skies. We are record 21 days in a row with our spare the air alert in effect. So we are looking at a red flag warning, critical weather conditions up in the hills. The north bay mountains as well as east bay hills, that is from tonight all the way until wednesday morning. We will talk all about this coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes. Lets check in gianna lets look at traffic. We start on 80, westbounder leisuretowne boulevard we have a crash with all lanes blocked that happened at about 2 30. This is a fatal incident. Chp is still on scene for the investigation. Th