For many and cloudy and 51 degrees up to 55 degrees. A combination of these two low pressure systems and the temperatures dropping will continue that theme a day. Highs which was above average on tuesday and wednesday not anymore. Now they are below. Is it better at 101 . It is better and they open the lane which is good news in case you was hearing me talk about northbound 101. They opened the lanes and the traffic has been pretty good. We look at the Golden Gate Bridge as you head south and that is the only thing that worries me about when the roads are wide open, when there are crashes they tend to be more serious because people are going fast. Chp has told me they are issuing citations for people going too fast. A deadly earlymorning crash on highway 4 in martinez is being investigated. Chp said a man stole a car from a 7eleven at 1 30 am this morning and took off before losing control of the car. When the Police Arrived that car had flipped over several times and ejected the drive
Umbrellas, look what i dusted off. The storm impact scale. Mainly for this morning. In most neighborhoods we have fog, mist and drizzle. Its enough that its been measurable. Then well have areas of steady rain as the cold front comes through. Then some isolated showers and a slight chance of lightning in the north bay and the east bay. This is all mainly before noon. Heres a look at san jose, 101 and 880, we had wet weather down in the south bay this morning. Here is sfo, wet with some drizzle. The most or the best radar returns up near live doppler 7 in the north bay, this is when the steadier rain rolls in and a better chance of an isolated shower or thunderstorm. The best chance is south of redding, it will be mainly in the central valley. So, as we head into the afternoon hours, things start to clear out. Then we will have breezy conditions develop from north to south. Temperatures below average. Half moon bay, San Francisco, richmond, low 70s to mid 70s around the bay. Well look a
Morning hours. Even an isolated shower. Thats 101 in the south bay. It is wet also. Expect wet weather through noon. Frances . Mike, were tracking numerous problems. Our biggest is northbound 680 sunol. Traffic is being detoured off the freeway. Northbound 680 at vargas, things are crawling because of an accident involving a jackknifed tractor trailer and a fuel spill. Traffic crawling through the sunol grade. Heres a live shot of the scene. Northbound traffic not getting by at all. Its going to take a while to clear this one. 885 might be an alternate. Northbound 101 jammed in san jose because of an accident. Traffic is heavy from highway 85 to the san jose airport. More accidents out there and lots of other slow spots. Those are m doing ucoming jobina fortson has been stuck in that backup for a while. We talked to her two times before. Every time she was not able to move. Any progress . No progress unfortunately. Its still a parking lot down here. We were able to get some clarify keg
East bay valleys and even hotter up in the hills where you see red. Look at friday through monday. Four days of excessive heat everywhere except for the coast and San Francisco, and youre under a heat advisory saturday. Thats where it will be the hottest in your neighborhoods. Ive put the man up there that had the bay air ma Quality Management district uses to separate us, and heres a look at our air quality. Inland east bay, the east bay valleys and Santa Clara Valley poor today, except for the coast in central bay. Heres the third of the trifecta. We have a red flag warning. A high fire danger starting at 9 00 this evening through saturday at 8 00 in the morning. Ill show you record highs and possibly record warm low temperatures coming up in the forecast. Kristen . Mike, thank you. With the intense heat wave in the north bay parents are keeping their kids at home out of health certainties, some anyway. The Novato School district is considering ways to cope as eight of its campuses d
Reporter dan, behind me you should be able to see m see m sm diablo dominating the horizon. Its virtually invisibe because of the haze. Haze thats actually smoke from a distant fire. People have been calling in to local Police Departments in the east bay concerned about the smoky haze obscuring these normally vivid golden green hills. Police issued an alert to let residents know you dont need to call in. Its not a local fire. Its smoke drifting in from 160 miles away in the sierras where firefighters are battling the 35 acre ponderosa fire. Pg e plan to open Operation Centers tomorrow as they brace for the extreme heat. Temperatures over 110 degrees in many parts of the east bay. We know that concord and livermore will see some of the highest temperatures here in the bay area. We are preparing for those areas to potentially see outages. Reporter its all hands on deck and lots of spare transformers and cables as pg e relies on technology to predict where to use crews. That includes equi