Hint of a see breeze at 77 in San Francisco, 60s at Half Moon Bay but inland still above 100 degrees. So excessive heat warning should be done as of 9 00 but starting at 10 00 is the red flag warning for the bay area alove a thousand feet. Increasing wind where we have a wind advisory from 5 00 a. M. To 11 00. And the gusts could be in the 45 to 60mileperhour range, that is the highest fire range zone. Norther napa county, here are the reason why, the humidity levels below 10 during the morning tomorrow. Well talk more about the red flag conditions and when relief could come in terms of cooler temperatures in about 15 minutes from now. Back to you. Thank you very much. And again were waiting for the News Conference from pga. 21 Northern California counties are bracing for blackouts but it doesnt have to do anything with the stressed power grid. This time it is about fire danger and winds. Pg e may intentionally cut off power to reduce the threat of new wildfires being sparked. Most of
And we have elevated fire danger a red flag warning for high fire danger goes into effect at 10 00 tonight. That will be in effect until 8 00 wednesday morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. Wind gusts will bring drier air, warmer air to the bay area, flowing offshore. And as a result of that, that raises the fire danger. And a wind advisory will be in effect from 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow to 11 00 p. M. Tomorrow. That will be mainly for the Higher Elevations of the north bay with wind gusts ranging from 45 to 65 Miles Per Hour. You can see how the wind gusts will pick up overnight tonight and continue through much of the day tomorrow before they start to i taer off a little bit. With all that, we still have really poor air quality. The next two days will be spare the air days, giving us a string of 23 consecutive spare the air days. And we cant even be serve yet that air quality will improve by thursday. Poor air will be with us tomorrow and wednesday. Thank you, spencer.
Now at 11 00, breaking news. Pg e beginning to turn off power to thousands of people in the north bay and beyond to reduce the threat of wildfires. Hundreds of homes in danger in Mendocino County after a new wildfire exploded in size. Another day of record heat, another day for airquality, now tracking dangerous fire weather conditions now. We will take a look at efforts to keep visitors from local beaches. It is unfortunate but people are not Wearing Masks when they are supposed to. They are having big plates. Good evening i am elizabeth cook. Good evening, i am ellen martin. Breaking news as new evacuation orders have been issued in sonoma county. This map of the evacuation area shows the area shaded in red just west of windsor being told to get out now. This is north of Sweetwater Springs road west of westside road and east of palmer creek road. Also breaking, the first planned power shutoffs of the wildfire season getting underway. More than 22,000 bay area customers lose electrici
The north bay and beyond to reduce the threat of wildfires. Hundreds of homes in danger in Mendocino County after a new wildfire exploded in size. Another day of record heat, another day for airquality, now tracking dangerous fire weather conditions now. We will take a look at efforts to keep visitors from local beaches. It is unfortunate but people are not Wearing Masks when they are supposed to. They are having big plates. Good evening i am elizabeth cook. Good evening, i am ellen martin. Breaking news as new evacuation orders have been issued in sonoma county. This map of the evacuation area shows the area shaded in red just west of windsor being told to get out now. This is north of Sweetwater Springs road west of westside road and east of palmer creek road. Also breaking, the first planned power shutoffs of the wildfire season getting underway. More than 22,000 bay area customers lose electricity. Most living in sonoma county, but also more than 5000 customers in napa county. Kpix
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area , we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look out east. And new mandatory evacuations overnight in the north bay. We have more on that in a bed. Good morning, it is tuesday, september eighth. I am Michelle Griego. I am len keise. We are trusting gusty winds. Lets get a check of the weather with meteorologist mary lee. Wind gusts are up to 40 miles an hour in north bay mountains. Critical fire weather conditions and we are watching the winds take that turn out of the north and northeast. It is very dry air with that onshore flow. Red flag warnings are in effect for the north bay. Until 8 00 on wednesday, we are looking at low relative humidity values for the north bay mountains from 5 00 until 11 00 because of the possibility of downed trees and power lines and wind gusts up to 15 miles an hour in the north bay mountains. It is a big concern. Our