Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot
Week. But darren is here to tell us about that. One challenge at a time. First lets take the excessive heat. Im going to show you some daytime highs that are a lot more impressive in 100. When you hit 100 in San Francisco, that stands out. We shattered the record for today which was 92 set back in 1904. Weve only hit 100 degrees in the city of San Francisco 12 times since we started keeping records officially back in the 1870s. And of those 12, nine of them have been in september. This is the most likely time were going to do it. The hottest temperature weve hit in San Francisco since the 1870s is 107 and we did that on Labor Day Weekend three years ago. This is our time of year you te impressive numbers now. 111 in livermore. 111 in santa rosa. All the red ones with asterisks next to them. All of them are records. And just to show you how far above records we were, you can see the difference there. Tomorrow gets a little better. But when the numbers are this high, a little better does
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
Going to quote the city here, at a time of great unrest and deep reflection by our country, we recognize the pain and oppression that Christopher Columbus represents to many. The removal of the controversial statue of Christopher Columbus began at 3 00 a. M. By crews from the department of rec and park. It was then driven to an undisclosed location and placed in storage. The mayor and the San Francisco Arts Commission made that decision because they said it doesnt align to San Franciscos values or our commitment to racial justice. Christopher columbus is a deeply polarizing figure in our history and a deep symbol of pain, oppression, particularly for many Indigenous People in our communities. Reporter the city also took action after this flier began circulating online, encouraging people to remove the statue themselves at a demonstration scheduled for tomorrow. The statue was vandalized three times last week. To ensure the safety of organizers and really to spare them of having to do t
Temperatures climb, really heating up as we you have the the next several days. Our temperatures are running in the 40s and 50s as we start off our day. Were looking at seasonal daytime highs sworn right around where we should be for this time of year. 75 in san jose, and 77 to be concord, but i am watching this strong ridge of High Pressure build in, and that will mean our temperatures are going to soar. Details on that holiday forecast coming up. And oakland city officials will cracking down on crowds c kit, what is the plan out there . Reporter right here, plugged into the grass, theres a cover your face and stay six feet aparts sign. Lots of reminders everywhere for visitors to see and take notice if they come out here to lake merritt. Just like last weekend, yes, the lake itself will still be opened, but the city is trying to roars the crowds, so they wont make it easy for you to get here. The following changes into go into effect today. There will be no parking adjacent to lake m