Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can
Gusts will be near 60 and 70 over the ridges. And at the lower elevations well see some very breezy winds to gusty, up to 50 miles an hour. Relative humidity, 5 to 15 , thats tomorrow. Right now were at 52 in danville, 50 in pleasant hill. 53 in concord. Fog in the north bay with upper 40s. Its a chillier morning out there and the relative humidity is back with us this morning. Nine degrees cooler in Half Moon Bay, two to three degrees cooler in the north bay. And the visibility anywhere from a quarter mile to half mile from napa to santa rosa. Not much in terms of fog. Well have partly cloudy skies today. And temperatures will stay on the cool side, near seasonable levels, mid60s around noontime around the bay and inland. 50s at the coast, by the afternoon, partly cloudy skies, still with low 70s inland, upper 60s around the bay and were looking at that sunset at 6 19. Well go in detail about what to expect in terms of winds and ad coming up, liz. Lisa, thank you. This morning we are
And here comes our wind advisory tomorrow afternoon, at 4 00 for the lower elevations, lasting through monday, 11 00, in the red, indicating a red flag warning, 11 00 in the hills, and looking at 20 to 40 mile an hour wind gusts, gusts to 50. And we could see some of those gusts over 70 miles an hour, over the ridges, so the relative humidity drops anywhere from 5 to 15 and this could allow fires to ignite and spread rapidly. Right now were at 49 in mountain view, 54 in the los altos hills. 44 in napa. 24hour temperature thing, anywhere from two to five degrees colder this morning. Certainly feeling like fall and the fog has spread from napa to novato at a quarter mile visibility, three quarters of a mile in santa rosa. Partly cloudy around the bay, along the coast, sunny inland. Low 70s there. Bayside, upper 60s around fremont, only in the 50s at the coast and then things change rapidly by tomorrow. Ill be back with the timeline of the winds and the dry air in a few minutes. Liz . Lis
Wish we had a second transbay tube. We just told you, the transbay tube is now open. We go to the west oakland b. A. R. T. Station. And the traffic is backed up now. A lot of delays because of this stoppage earlier. Reporter talk about horrible timing, right at the start of the evening commute. As you mentioned, were live outside of the west oakland b. A. R. T. Station. All of these commuters are looking down at their phones. Theyre ordering ubers and lyfts, trying to figure out a way to get out and get to the final destination. I have a commuter here. Jason from oakland. Walk me through it. You were on the train and what did you hear . Zb i was the last guy on the train, were packed in. Were going to hold the train for a minute. Everyones, okay. A couple minutes go by and they say, theres smoke in the tunnel. Were going to be probably turning this train around. And since i was the last person on the train, i was the first person off. I figured out how to get here another way. Reporter
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