Smoke at levels releasing. Rarely seen. Today mark 25 days of spare the air alerts and they are now extended through at least monday. Take a look at this view from jack london square. Visibility severely limited. The oakland estuary disappearing into the smoke. He was was to blame, a massive smoke plume that extends off the california coast, breaking it up wont be easy. We have Live Team Coverage tonight. Our meteorologist tracking changes that will start to help. And how much exposure is too much. First we go to how the smoke is affecting everything from trash pickup to whether the 49ers home opener will even happen on sunday. The air quality has gone from simply being a nuisance to downright dangerous for a lot of people. Especially those with respiratory problems. Its also forcing some to respond in ways like weve never seen before. Folks, its smoke all over the place. No matter where you go. Mcnair quality expert assuming the big picture view of what many throughout the bay area ar
Visits to the respiratory urgent care center. Now at 10 wildfires continue to rage up and down the west coast leading to some of the worst air quality on the planet. Right now right here in the bay area, thank you for joining us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis a thick blanket of smoke has been hovering over the bay area for days now making it. Hard to breathe unhealthy to be outside. This is what many people experienced today. And unfortunately that smoke is expected to linger right on through the weekend chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us live as we went from orange on wednesday to gray worse today and the air quality really deteriorated as the week progressed, yeah, you know all that smoke from up above all the orange skies. That all makes down to the surface down thats where we sit we dont have a real way to get out of town unless were to get a storm. Good wind event to start to mix that out were not even seeing the heating that we normally see
Stronger onshore flows. Theres fog out there. In fact, theres a dense fog advisory along the shoreline this morning, and as a result very, veriy foggy so do be careful. It is 59 oakland, 56 fremont. With the fog you cant see anything at all. Half moon bay, petaluma, 2 mile visibility sfo, of a mile oakland. Poor air quality but as we get into the later part of the day, the overnight hours were going to see a stronger onshore push. The lighter colors indicate better air quality by tomorrow evening. The spare the air alert takes us through monday. Very unhealthy air for us again today, unfortunately, but we will be looking at a more diffuse smoke layer meaning we will warm up a little bit more into some 80s today. A further look at the rest of the weekend coming up. Liz . All right, lisa, thank you. Sports are highly in question this weekend for both the San Francisco giants and 49ers. Theyre threatened by problems only 2020 could provide. We start with the giants whose game today is pos
Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Raging wildfires up and down the west coast. In fact its so bad that some of the worst air quality on the planet is right here in the bay area. I think blanket of smoke continues to hover over the bay area making it tough to breathe. And im healthy to stay outside. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news, set saturday September Marty gonzales unfortunately that smokes expected to linger throughout the weekend. It is yet another spare the air day for the bay area, the 26th in a row. We want to get more from days far on that and look at the forecast heidi a good morning marty good morning it looks like were getting a little bit of sleight thinning of the smoke at least happening a lot of air quality the service is going to be lousy all weekend still continuing. With some improvement as we get into early next week because of some other factors are going to help out with the sky conditions to again this g
We certainly have the smoke, haze and some stratus out there. A dense fog advisory along the shoreline. You can see the fog lined up there, and unfortunately no good news in terms of our air quality today. The winds are going to be light and the sun has to bust through that smoke layer to get that sea breeze going. As we look at visibility right now it is just reduced everywhere from a quarter of a mile in santa rosa, nothing petaluma to half moon bay. If you have to get out good idea to get out later. Three quarters of a mile sfo, just 2 miles hayward, a little better than that in concord, and the current air quality indexest there as that haze mixes with the fog. So were not looking at big changes today. Maybe a little sun working through that marine layer later on today. But as a result the air quality will be bad today. Its going to get better as we get into the second half of your weekend and should be even better into next week. Warm and hazy out there, and well look at the tempe