The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of custome
Around for a little while longer lets check in with john and get more about that. Yeah guys winds definitely still present for a large part of the bay area while some of us have calmed down so its a mixed bag this morning as opposed to yesterdays generally windy conditions all across the region. We have seen some improvements and well continue to see those in the days to come so that your good news for sure you look outside from center tower shows you just how clear those skies are a brilliant sunrise whether youre at the coast or further inland as marine layer, not really a factor this morning, its dry and it is breezy for many areas. The combination of those 2 factors resulting in the heightened fire danger for especially the north bay and then upper elevations in the east bay, our breezy a spots right now being Vacaville Atlas peak calistoga and sonoma danville in petaluma also notably on the breezy side. Later this morning still windy for these same areas while still calm for the o
Right now. Still breezy in areas like atlas peak, sonoma and calistoga as wills danville all these areas have consistently seen wind gusts this morning into a 20 mile per hour range. Most of her strongest of winds have been concentrated in mountainous areas more exposed to those peak wind sitting right above the bay. Well you see just the other thing going on right along the bay itself hayward san jose San Francisco, nice and calm through the morning we will see winds picking up briefly into early afternoon right after lunchtime and then after that its all downhill in by 06 00pm tonight. Actually pretty calm evening set up ahead of us red flag warnings will does expire at 05 00pm today for those upper elevations of the east bay, a purse elevations of marin and sonoma counties too and much of napa and all of Solano County. Again this red flag warning Expiration Date ahead of us so we do have that end in sight. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures, its been a nice morning with oakla
That all cities from santa rosa down to santa cruz and gilroy are under a red flag warning tonight, coastal regions, Santa Cruz Mountains and lower valleys are also under a redflag warning but that runs through 11 oclock tomorrow morning. Pg e has already turned off the power to 225,000 customers across the state with 136,000 more expected to lose power at some point tonight and the power is already off in the north bay. The areas marked here in purple that with that triangle thats the places that have already lost power pg e is turning off the power because the wind gusts could knock over a power line and start another devastating fire. Once this wind event is over power will be restored in phases. Starting monday night through tuesday night. And we have Team Coverage of tonights events kron fours gayle ong is live for us now in the east bay, where the winds have just started to pick up. Well have the latest from her in just a few moments. But first want to check in with meteorologist
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