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
Red flag warning has been issued as high winds and warm temperatures cause increased fire danger putting the bay area on high alert. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the genie is also ready to shut off power to try to prevent a major wildfire. The utility says the potential power shut off could happen as early as tomorrow afternoon affecting more than 22,000 customers take a look at what bay area counties could be affected by the power shut off. Those counties are alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo napa sonoma and solano counties, the highest probability areas or the north bay mountains near mount saint helene small pockets in the east bay near mount diablo the Oakland Hills east of piedmont and portions of the santa cruz area. And the power shutoffs do need to happen in your area you will be notified in advance via text call or email. Again thanks for joining us here at kron 4 news weve got Maureen Kelly shes joining us live from napa high morning. Thats why
Current temperatures in the 70s in hayward and redwood city and that just sort of gives you a preview of how warm it expects to get into the afternoon and the big concern here is the dry northeast winds and the red flag warning in effect through 11 00 a. M. And gusty conditions and ill go into more detail on that coming up in just a few minutes. Mike . All right, vianey. One little segment closed roadway and over in the trivalley. As we get a look over there. Eastbou eastbound 84 just before 4 00 a car hit a tree. Doesnt sound like anything major. The tree is across the eastbound lanes and that will be a problem. Very dark right now of course before sunrise well track that. The main commute through the trivalley is fine and oakland where we already see slowing northbound towards the construction at 29th. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Among the thousands of customers in the bay area impacted by the Public Safety power shut down the city of calistoga. The people there just trying to
Im grant lotus and im Ella Sogomonian in for Vicki Liviakis nearly 7,000 pg e customers across the bay area are bracing for another round of power shut offs pg reps say that customers across 19 Northern California counties have been notified about the potential shut up 6 of them right here in the bay area this is pg and es future outage map this is what they are predicting the areas with the yellow indicate that could lose power there in the bay area talking about alameda contra costa napa santa clara solano and sonoma counties all of this because of that. Hot and dry windy conditions expected tomorrow chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joining us now with all those details here lawrence they guys, yeah we may see their map get a just a bit too weve got a series of wind events headed toward the bay area fact red flag warnings posted by the National Weather Service Starting tomorrow, were going to see all the way to the coastline and the Santa Cruz County San Mateo County very gusty wi
As hot and dry conditions combined with expected. Strong wind gusts posen increased risk for damage to the electrical system which could potentially ignite a fire majority of those customers affected are in napa county and thats where we find kron 4 taylor bisacky. Who is live in calistoga with more taylor people must be exhausted by all of this. Grand for parts of calistoga this could be the second time without power within just one week. You know really seems to this area. Its been one thing after the other. These power shut offs come just a couple of weeks after folks he returned home from those glass fire evacuations. Another round of pge Public Safety power shutoffs could sweep parts of the bay area the napa county being the most affected. Pg says the possible psps is slated to affect more than 4,300 customers in napa county. Including those living in parts of calistoga were filling some gas for tomorrow because theyre going to shut off the power. Again chad taylor isnt the only o