Our dangerous heat wave arrived today, and its only going to get hotter tomorrow. Were tracking the recordbreaking temperatures. Excessi creating several concerns. One, health. Two, slow business traffic. Three, potential power shutoffs. Raising money for the Boulder Creek volunteer fire department. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im indion lim. Imatcri is on, another scorr tomorrow. Lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking even hotter temperatures tomorrow, eric and dion. Right now, a warm night, 79 in the city. 80 san jose. 77 in oakland. The air quality is moderate across the entire region, however, if you have been smelling a pretty strong, new smell of smoke, there is in fre start today, the creek fire. It did send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. There are no new fires in the bay area tonight, but there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere from that fire in Fresno County. Future tracker temperatures, get your workout in early by 8
Bay area as well creating more moderate air. Right now its the lack of fog and warm temperatures. 69 in oakland. 66 in santa rosa. Were in the 70s in concord. 70 in livermore. 85 in los gatos. Half moon bay 55 degrees. Compared to yesterday, already 6 to 12 degrees of warming, that sun comes up at 6 44, thats important because we get our coolest temperatures about an hour after sunrise. We have about another two hours of cooling to go to lose maybe a degree or two. After that, numbers coming up. Good air quality so far for the most part, except for fremont and down by santa cruz, where it is moderate and of course our excessive heat warnings continues until 9 00 tomorrow with our heat advisory along the coast and once again, we are looking at potential records so a spare the air alert today, poor air quality inland and south bay, by 9 00, well into the 80s. Look at 1 00, we are 107 san ramon. How about 109 in gilroy, by 5 00 and well look for another very toasty day for labor day. Well
Fresh air get out there and enjoy it for today starting off with some patchy fog along the coast and right around the bay and even a gray start for the inland locations with the sea breeze kicking in for us. The daytime highs 86 in concord and looking at 82 in san jose and 74 in oakland and 68 for San Francisco. A fire weather watch with critical fire weather conditions for saturday and 11 00 a. M. Until 8 00 a. M. On monday. From north bay mountains and east bay hills and interior valleys and talk more about the high fire danger for the weekend coming up in a few minutes. Now lets check in with gianna for the latest on the dry through the Altamont Pass. Its been a tough one this morning mary. A broken down big rig at greenville. The drive times are improving. However, i am now getting word of a brand new trouble spot. Westbound 580 at the 205 connector. Already busy anyway coming out of tracy as you work just past north flynn with your drive times now at 41 minutes. So thats actually
And warnings will expire at 9 00 p. M. So its not only the heat we are tracking. Its also our air quality. Air quality right now is moderate across the entire region. But were going fluctuate, again, between moderate and poor the next couple days. So the spare the air days have been extended. We have heat, air quality issues and by thend of the weekend, well have high fire danger. Well talk about it all in the accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Thank you. In some parts of the bay area we cannot head to the water over labor day. Lake berryessa is closed including tomales bay and the seashore in marin county, all the beaches in pacifica, the fitzgerald marine preserve and bonitas creek reserve and santa cruz beaches are only open for a few hours each day. Beaches that are open are popular spots. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan talked to people who headed to Stinson Beach. Reporter Stinson Beach in the north bay was a hot spot for those trying to escape this weekends recordbreaking ba
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