Strong enough to combine with the low humidity levels, to rapidly spread any fire that could get going. Do not see it last into early this morning, we hope that is the case again tonight into tomorrow morning. That is an x window for the greatest fire danger which is why the red flag warning continues through tomorrow at 11 oh clock in the morning. For most inland portions of the bay area the wind gusting up to 35 to 50 miles an hour once again. Maybe not the strongest gust compared to what we saw last night but still Strong Enough when you consider the very low humidity levels. Things are going to improve, whichever that fire danger index to the day tomorrow, take a look at the weekend forecast in just a few minutes. The wind blowing to the east bay hills is enough to trigger anxiety for some, over fire danger, and with more Power Outages on the horizon, one salon owner in oakland bought a generator to keep her business up and running. Has to be able to carry two or three hairstylist,
Drew, still windy . Yeah. Breezy out there. The strongest winds have subsided. But man, was it windy last night. Look at these peak wind gusts. Gt later at night the winds race down our hillsides. Oakland airport reported a gust of 58 miles an hour. In the oakland hills, we had winds in excess of 50 miles an hour. Very windy in the east conqu conqu conquered. Right now, the winds have backed off in a lot of spots. Still some isolated that you can see in napa and fairfield. 23 and 30 miles an hour respectively. But much of the area has winds about 10 miles an hour. Were nomp near where we were this morning. Wind gusts in excess of 70 miles miles. Its not only the wind we were concerned about. Its the bone dry air. You hook at the dew points and think what is a dew point. The best way i like to shape it to people. See the numbers on the screen where we have negative seven in santa rosa. Zero in napa. What you would do is you would have to cool the air temperature down to minus seven in s
Urging people to avoid standing underneath trees when winds are blowing like they did overnight and late today. Check out this trampoline that toppled over a fence in fremont. Police tweeting the picture to remind everybody, make sure that your items are secured, tied down during heavy winds. Its all part of the Public Safety power shutoffs. Hundreds of thousands of californians are affected, authorities trying to prevent their equipment sparking wildfires in extreme winds. Take a look from pg e. You can see exactly where power is out right now across the bay area. All the dots there in purple. You can see thousands of people are still affected in the bay area. Although the situation is getting better. We have Team Coverage today on the Power Outages and the winds. Abc 7 News Reporters Laura Anthony and Wayne Friedman are checking in on customers affected in the east bay and north bay. Lets begin with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma and the forecast. The red flag warning still on. Yeah,
Falls by its did not come through, but we are looking at some strong winds likely on into wednesday and and i know those numbers were really fast there. But yes we are going to be looking at strong winds impacting us over the next couple of days as for what we can expect for your current temperatures, it is 50s and 60s out there berkeley at 64 degrees timber on 63. Oakland dublin, and livermore each in the 50s right now a cool start to a morning that eventually does turn into a pretty warm afternoon by the time we work into the afternoon and are all the sunshine daytime highs rise into the 90s inland. 80s by the bay and even near in the 80s for some coastal areas. We have more details in your forecast ahead robin all right, thank you for the update lets update traffic your morning commute for the early birds for checking in on the bay bridge toll plaza. And its looking pretty good right now no problems into San Francisco 4 westbound 80 on the oakland side were smooth and quiet through
Is no longer very visible at the bay bridge but certainly is right along the coastline, so if youre near the coast watch out for those low visibility spots. Good air quality for most of the bay area improvements from last weeks moderate pockets of air. And temperatures this morning as i mentioned have that cool crisp feel to them especially in the north bay, were starting things off in the 40s in Santa Rosa Petaluma nevado and since elmo 50s for most of the rest of us later today at 70s and 80s for most of our daytime highs nothing wrong with that. I am talking slightly warmer days come tuesday and wednesday. Still ahead robin. I thank you john were heading back to the bay bridge toll plaza where we have a couple of trucks blocking right now this is right at the pay gates westbound as you approach i notice a truck thats been sitting there in that middle lane for quite some time and then i thought it was a stall, but check this out this truck. Its not moving either. So this may be a cra