Grows. 7 00 a. M. , 78, 9 00 a. M. , 81. The key here is that northeast wind coming down the hillside. As this comes down in elevation and sinks, that warmth, and thats why it led to that very warm start this morning. Now, the red flack fire warning has been extended for a portion of the bay area, for the north bay hills and east bay hills. This has been extended until 6 00 a. M. Saturday. Winds not extremely strong, but it is still warm, and it is still to try and breezy. We could have winds gusting to 30 miles an hour. Right now as we look at some of the sensors, the winds, nothing too extreme, but it is still so hot and dry. Here is our live camera this evening, looking out towards San Francisco and downtown with mostly clear skies. The current numbers, still have 90s well inland. San francisco in the mid80s. Half moon bay, 81 degrees. The heat advisory expires later on this evening. The weekend will bring in some cooler air. More on your weekend outlook coming up in a few minutes.
The highest tier. With fewer coronavirus cases , more businesses can move indoors. But different counties are moving at a different pace, even though they are in the same tier. Today san mateo, solano and alameda counties regimented from the purple to red. They joined marin, napa, San Francisco, and santa cruz counties in the red tier. Only sonoma and contra costa counties remain in the most restrictive purple tier. While this is progress, there is also some confusion with each county moving at a different pace. Reporter different counties in the bay area opening some sectors while keeping others closed, confusing because at the beginning of the pandemic, the strategy was a regional approach. Some Business Owners find it frustrating. Im really disappointed and frustrated because i believe that nail salon are safe. I think we have the right to open. Reporter Michelle Saunders james owns this now salon in oakland, shuttered for six months and she cant operate outdoors. There is no space
Power cut off to try to prevent wildfires can planned to be in the dark into tomorrow night, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everyone im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis the Power Company announcing no changes for sonoma and napa county and their update tonight blaming critically dry conditions out there. This is an interactive map on pg es website shows exactly where the shut offs are happening at last check pg e reported that they turned off electricity to 167,000 customers across Northern California as part of what they call a Public Safety power shut off. 17,000 in Sonoma County most of which is in santa rosa and 5,000 in napa county and some of that in a in calistoga or sell sogomonian live in our newsroom tonight with when the power may come back on l a. Pg e is Incident Commander expects most of their customers will have their lights back on by the end of the day tomorrow with a widespread all clear in the morning. The weather is driving their decisionmaking taking a look at
Lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some gusty winds mean that any fire that has sparked a can spread rapidly chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here tracking those winds for us tonight want various he has some breaking down guys down below me the urban areas where most of us live not much in the way of wind 5 mile an hour winds in oakland youve got 6 right now in the nevada 6 in the petaluma but certainly up above. Its a completely different story in fact those winds getting very gusty across some of the mountain tops and thats what were concerned about thats red flag warnings have been posted weve seen winds over 30 almost 40 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks in the north bay expected to pick up here as we head through the next few hours and probably top out about one 32 oclock in the morning. Before we watch the winds begin to subside so red flag warnings are posted of course we just had a record heat wave things very dry out there now weve got the gusty winds above a 1000 feet also
As well as portions of sonoma and marin counties this morning as we work our way through the morning visibility shouldnt be too much of an issue for most areas as fog will be sitting right above most of the bay itself at the coast though is where youre likely to see some visibility impact so well as areas along highway, one o one up in the north bay by the time we work towards 10 to 11 00am this morning as were going to really start to see a lot of clearing alongside the bay and inland with fog remaining pretty steady out along the coast and streaming back through the golden gate into the early afternoon. So not a whole large window of sunshine for coastal areas like we did see over the weekend with a lot of sunshine all the way out to the coast. Now skies today well eventually clear out as they promise to you and that is eventually going to help temperatures to rise back into the 70s right alongside the bay after these 50s 60s this morning with even warmer temperatures for inland area