Diablo range scrolling up to mount diablo the oakland hills. All those areas that typically everybody is on alert whenever the winds pick up around mount tam for instance and of course up in the wine country. Both napa and sonoma counties look at all that purple all those areas either have power thats already been turned off or those are locations of peach and he has an eye on today to shut the power if the winds continue and were out there with our live reporters keep a look at whats going on in those neighborhoods in Contra Costa County with will tran in the north bay. With Sarah Stinson and in the Weather Center thats were going to start with you john yeah because because it has been a very windy evening and continues to be this morning to something that will be causing you problems as you leave for work this morning as you will be encountering areas. Where youll be able to feel those gusts as you do into roadways as for conditions right now from suture tower it is beautiful, it is
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Thats because heavy winds and hot dry air are creating ideal fire conditions. Just what we do not need. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Once again our coverage begins with abc 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian for whats happening right now and in the days ahead. Spencer . Okay, dan. Ama was right. We have ideal fire conditions. We have rising temperatures. Very low relative humidity and gusty winds that are only getting stronger. Right now as you look at current temperature readings you can see we have mid 90s, mid to upper 90s in many inland areas, even a couple 90s around the bay shoreline, and its 80 degrees in San Francisco. As we move along you can see that the wind gusts right now in the Higher Elevations are getting stronger and stronger. They will likely get Even Stronger in the nighttime hours. So as a result we have a red flag warning for high fire danger in effect until midday friday. This is not only for the hills but the hills
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Try to prevent fires. We start with weather. Tracking those off shore winds, returning for us. Right now here is a live look at the Sales Force Tower camera as we look north and light conditions for the most part looking at 12mile an hour winds in santa rosa. Its up in the Higher Elevations where we are watching the stronger wind gusts. 44mile an hour wind gusts, mount diablo44, mount tam is 33. Nevado is 26 and 22 in the oakland hills. We will continue to watch the winds as we head through tonight into tomorrow morning. Red flag warning in effect until 11 00 a. M. Friday for the areas highlighted in red. That is the north bay and east bay mountains and the inland valleys and Santa Cruz Mountains all under that red flag warning due to gusty off shore winds. We are looking at gusts as high as 35 to 55 miles an hour, especially up in the Higher Elevations, above a thousand feet and low relative humidity values and extreme fire danger. Critical fire weather conditions as we head through t