This photo sent by les carr. Lets look at live conditions. This is our camera on top of our studio in jack london square, looking out towards San Francisco. You cant even see the city there in the distance. Some are describing the key is as having a post apocalyptic look. Here is another camera at sfo. The sky appears more gray than orange. Flights have not been affected by all of the ash in the air we are told. And finally a live camera in the east bear on highway 24 in laugh fayette, looking toward walnut creek. Our view from mount diablo has been obscured. You cant even see it, for the past three weeks now. Lets go for more on this s bill, weve all been talking, never seen anything like it. No, this is, in our tenure, definitely, julie, this has been unprecedented. I saw something similar to this, like i mentioned earlier, when Mount Saint Helens blew in 1982 in eastern washington. The skies looked like this. But that was a major, massive volcano. I mean, the smoke from these fires
Steve talking about improvements. At least it seems that way, rosemary. We had the disturbance that moved through over california and it brought a mix to the atmosphere and helped to clear things out a little bit. The onshore breeze will continue over the next few days, and hopefully that will help to continue to push some of the smoke away from the bay area and further in land. We have a spare the air alert in place and the hazy skies are expected to remain. Morning clouds followed by afternoon sunshine, at least away from the coast, this morning starting with fog along the coastline. Temperatures are expected to cool. I will have a look at Current Conditions and what to expect for the afternoon coming up in a little bit. It is 5 00,. Lets check the highways. Right now, we have traffic that is doing pretty well around the bay area. I want to put up the fire closure map as you approach santa cruz. Boulder creek there are several areas, outlined in purple, still shut down. Highway 17 is
The bay area and beyond so many viewers, sharing pictures and videos like these today, thank you so much for sending them in helping us understand the scope of this problem, the smoky air mostly coming from wildfires, burning north of us. Yes for the air alert spanning woodburning as you can imagine is going to be in effect through at least friday now in the bay areas thick smoke from wildfires continues to envelop the region creating this orange hazy sky businesses is the 25th straight day. The air district is issued a spare the air alert. And here to explain the Science Behind all the weird colors out there Lawrence Karnow the guys just when i thought this is going to be kind of a slow weather day done with all the heat waves and everything else. Here we go one of the strangest days ive ever experienced in weather waking up to the orange skies outside. And all that smoke coming down from the fires and certainly it moved along want to push on through bringing with a lot of smoke not f
Alcatraz. And it even affected construction sites. Some crews had to use their lights in the middle of the day. And this is what travellers leaving or arriving at sfo were seeing. A passenger took these photos from a window seat as his plane was landing. You could smell smoke in the cabin. And we could he see outside, so it wasnt like engine fire smoke. It was just burning. You could just smell it. You could see the ground on that side, you couldnt see it on this side. And it was just dark, dark burnt orange. Crazy. Sfo says that air quality did not affect departures or arrivals. So the air quality hasnt taken a big hit with air readings painting a different picture. And chris nguyen has the story from the south bay. Reporter as wildfires burn, a combination of smoke and haze made for a rtli ow it feels like it is the end of the world or something is lurking. Something is in the making. It is a very eerie feeling. Reporter with ash falling from above, the darkness during the day could
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our roof cam right now out to the bay bridge. Good morning everyone, its thursday, september 10th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning. The question of this morning, will the skies be orange again . Too soon to tell of course, still dark out but lets check in with mary lee and well have to wait to see what the sun reveals this morning, mary. Thats right len and michelle. We are still dealing with the smoke although things are not quite the same as yesterday. And the winds aloft a little bit of a wind direction. So not exactly the same as yesterday. But still were looking at those smoky skies and unhealthy air quality and you can see current air quality conditions all of the red dots and that does indicate unhealthy air this morning. As we start off our day. Were now going a record 24 days in a row with a spare the air alert for the bay area. This is our Mount Hamilton camerausuase something but