Thousands of customers. Low humidity, record dry vegetation. Another night of critical fire weather. Good evening, everyone. A red flag warning is now in effect for the entire bay area, and most of Northern California. We have five Team Coverage on the fire danger. Pg e has already cut firepower to thousands of customers. Amber has more on how people are preparing to evacuate if necessary. Bill martin is tracking conditions. He is among those who have lost power. It is really coming on. The wind was expected as it is. There is a red flag warning right now. It has got some duration, but its going to be around. The main event is tonight, in the next five or six hours, so lets do this model. Eight, nine, 10 00. You can see the orange and yellow, you can see the numbers in calistoga. That went goes down to calistoga at 32 Miles Per Hour. This is 2 00, 3 00 in the morning, it peaks right there. You can see that winfield, those purple areas, this is the main event tonight. According to the m
The were still to come tonight breeze. Uh yes, certainly so just seeing right now were seeing the worst over the north bay mountains, specifically the valleys as well. Relative humidity in the Single Digits and lets take a look at current wind speeds out there right now we are noticing a shift and change in that wind pattern, especially along the coast where we are tracking along our coastal areas winds finally arriving for those of you in downtown San Francisco sustained out of the north at 20 Miles Per Hour and were noticing gusts along the coast in the north a 30 mile per hour sustained wind speeds with gusts in that 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour range right now so finally starting to see that shift from that sea breeze in downtown San Francisco, turning more of an offshore wind with those wines right now 21 Miles Per Hour sustained, so we are going to notice this continue during the overnight hours through your monday morning, the peak of the winds happening right now for those of you in
Minute push. She joins us from Contra Costa County theresa. Why we have been saying people rush here to make sure that they make that deadline as well as dropping their ballots here in Contra Costa County. Ive been doing elections for 25 years this is my 6th president ial election. Ive never seen. People so excited, enthusiastic and voting so early. Thats the assistant registrar of voters on what theyre seeing this general election here in Contra Costa County with today being the deadline for registration we expect to go over. 700,000 voters for the first time in our history today. We about a year ago yesterday that would be our weather account and here we are on the final day of registration. And were were going to hit that target, but its very very very big this year and everybody should vote do the right thing and outside all day long this people constantly pulling up and dropping off their ballots. This mom even turned the whole operation into a civics lesson for her young 3 daught
Sonoma and san mateo tapping 50 turnout while alameda has over 54 . San francisco at 52, santa clara at 50 and solano has 46 turnout. Devin fehely takes us behind the scenes inside newly opened Voting Centers in Santa Clara County. Reporter with just three days left for tuesdays election, the registrar in Santa Clara County said they already more than doubled and nearly tripled their voting from 2016. The san jose mayor join more than a halfmillion voters dropping off their ballot early at the institute of contemporary art in downtown san jose. If there is any Silver Lining that all that has been dreadful and that has happened to us in 2020 is the fact that he will are deeply engaged, thank goodness we had 600,000 voters who already said this Community Matters in a to me for me to get out and vote. Voting centers from San Francisco to san mateo to santa clara have seen recordbreaking turnout this election. In Santa Clara County more than 575,000 people have already mailed in or dropped
She explains why. But first we have a microclimate weather alert. After a beef break, dangerous fire conditions are back. Jeff, a red flag warning just went into effect for certain parts of the bay area. What are you seeing . Thats exactly right. And its not going to be nonstop wind here over the next couple of days. Itll be these on and off wind gusts for these Higher Elevations of the north bay. I really want you to know the top risk is going to be 2,000 to 3,000 feet. So those highest mountain levels for the wind gusts 15 to 40 Miles Per Hour, a steady gust of 5 to 15. Any fire weather watch a little bit lower on the danger scale for the east and south bay. Not that gusty here. Winds of 12 Miles Per Hour st. Helena currently, and mt. Diablo at 10. The overall gustiest conditions i see coming our way this week would happen on thursday morning. That red to magenta color, those are those wind gusts around 40 Miles Per Hour that will begin to move into the north bay mountains and real c