This morning. Because of that, a spare the air alert that remains in effect. Going a record 23 days in a row with a spare the air alert for the thats never been done before. Also tracking dry and gusty offshore winds. Looking at winds gusting up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour this morning up in the Higher Elevations is why red flag warning is in effect until 8 00 a. M. Today for the north bay mountains and east bay hills but because of those dry northerly to winds, and low relative humidity values. Temperatures upper 60s in San Francisco and mid 70s in oakland. Upper 80s in san jose. And low to mid90s for concord down as we heads through the next few days. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and its a foggy start this morning. Yeah, it sure is mary. In fact, at the Golden Gate Bridge, that is where chp has issued a fog advisory. So limited visibility asu for the most part right now your drive times south 101, 14 minutes from the richmondsan rafael bridge into San Francisco.
Complex in the east bay, and the czu august complex in san mateo, santa clara, and santa cruz counties. We have new aerial images of the czu august lightning complex fire. That fire has burned more than 40,000 acres or about 62 square miles in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Cal fire says it is still 0 contained. Cal fire has now ordered a mandatory evacuation for the entire town of felton and the mountains a few miles north of santa cruz. Everyone in feltons population of about 4000 is being told to leave. Lets get right to kpix 5s kiet do who joins us live from felton this afternoon. Reporter cal fire issued the Evacuation Order at 8 30 this morning. Since then, we have seen a steady stream of cars, everyone pulling their jet skis, lawn equipment, rvs. It is interesting to see what people take with them in these situations. Now it is looking more like a ghost town. Make no bones about it, the fire is coming. We were warned to be on the lookout for extreme fire behavior and it did
Hour in the Higher Elevations. We have a dry cold front pushing through, kicking up the winds. We have a red flag warning in effect now all the way until 8 00 on wednesday due to these a dry and gusty offshore winds. There is low relative humidity values for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains today into tomorrow morning and we have a wind advisory that will be in effect for the north bay mountains for today, at a possible chance of downed trees and power lines. It will be hot but not quite as hot as yesterday. Were looking at mid 80s in San Francisco and low 90s in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and dealing with triple digit heat in concord. 103 for a high in concord and because of the extreme heat, still for inland locations, concord is opening up a cooling center at the Concord Senior Center from 1 00 until 6 00, to give some relief to people, so go out there if you need some safety from these hot temperatures. It is from 1 00 until 6 00 in concord.
There are so many fires going on. The chair was more that i could it is not a very happy forecast ever put into words. To be honest with you. He would leave his victim, there is too much. Shaking while he went to the there will be a little bit of kitchen, to eat, only to return relief. We are seeing it ever so and then the abuse and vileness slowly. San francisco, oakland, nevermore it is 75. Had started all over again. Look for hazy, hot, humid, one more day and lynn. The court will hear from not so much around the coast. More survivors on wednesday and thursday. I clouds, smoke, cooling dangelo is said to be formally sentenced on friday to multiple life terms in prison. Pg e utilites has settled the ghost fire at the tomorrow. The forecast projections to drop a lot of temperatures 10 warehouse in oakland, an degrees tomorrow. It will be so much haze and smoke in the area that temperatures will be above average for across the board from the city to livermore. Lets get over to sal, and
There is a lot we move through morning. The allen you lightning comples maof seven neighboring Law Enforcement agencies throughout the bay area have come to our aid, to different fires, so far it has the help of folks here in the county, to knock on doors and burned 50 square miles, and is zero percent contained. Literally go home to homeis a s putting that in perspective, that is the size of the entire city of vallejo. There are several Evacuation Orders in napa, sonoma, and solano counties. One that obviously, residents there, members of our office also live in this area. It is extremely important to heed these Evacuation Orders if you receive them over the phone. Obviously, we want to maintain public safety. We want to keep everyone safe the latest Evacuation Order is for all of soler hills and through this thing, this is something that we are in the gibson canyon road. Evacuations are in effect for early stages have. Other Pleasant Valley road, and we will be absolutely committed c