Who sent the last psp has helped prevent a fire in her neighborhood. Pg e started notifying customers friday of the potential power shut off, sparking some bad memories. Hearing there could be another ps ps almost brought back ptsd memories of last time. Reporter last time 80 miles an hour winds body tree in powerline toppling down in their heavily wooded neighborhood. There is a red wooded tree right there and it had broken and fallen across, bringing all the wires down to the ground. Reporter thankfully that powerline had been turned off because of the power shut down and the threat of dry conditions and high winds, once again, as pg e considering a preemptive power shut off to more than 150,000 customers in the bay area. Some are scrambling to provide emergency stations to help residents. This year the covid situation is complicated at a little bit. Reporter arendt as mayor plans to switch the help center to the librarys underground parking garage. Will have recharging facilities fo
Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can
Tracking the strong winds, the peak wind gust with the offshore went 50 to 60 miles an hour earlier this morning, mount st. Helena, mount diablo gusting wind gusts of 63 miles an hour. Mount hood 39 and 38 milean hour wind gusts at the oakland hills. Because of the dusty offshore winds, low relative humidity values, a big concern with the red flag warning that remains in effect now through 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow for all the areas highlighted in red. The northbay and east bay mountains, Santa Cruz Mountains under the red flag morning. We continue to watch humidity levels drop throughout the day today into tomorrow. That is why we are talking about the extreme fire danger. Also looking at dangerously hot temperatures. Likely record breaking highs today into tomorrow which is why the heat advisory for the bay area in effect today and tomorrow. We look at daytimes highs 20 degrees above average this time of year. I can let you know what to expect in your neighborhood coming up in a few minut
Today. That adds to the fire danger, mary. Thats right. Here we go again, dealing with extreme heat, dangerous fire weather conditions as we go through the day and into tomorrow. In fact it gets even hotter still. First, looking at that red flag warning in effect for the areas highlighted in red, inland valleys, Santa Cruz Mountains already seeing gusts 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. The peak winds with the offshore wind event is happening now. I am continuing to watch winds ramp up this morning. Low relative humidity values and extreme fire danger and a wind advisory because of the strong wind gusts for north bay mountains, foothills, possible downed trees and power lines, record breaking high temperatures. This is 20 degrees above average for this time of year and tomorrow we will see temperatures sky rocket and get even hotter tomorrow. Well talk more about what you can expect in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check with gianna who is tracking the hot spots including the altamont where
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