You are right. We have seen the winds up quite a bit and especially for the urban areas where we all reside. In the hills, very breezy and very dry. The wind advisory has been allowed to expire but the red flag warning will go until tomorrow. Giving a look at the northeast flow that continues, you can see as we get and closer starting in the north bay first, the winds are a little bit lighter in most cases. In fact, los alamos reporting when set eight Miles Per Hour. Closer to santa rosa, 26. 21 near pickett road. Take a look at relative humidity. We are in the single digits. Very dry. And if a fire were to start despite the ease only winds, it would spread very quickly. Big rock reporting relativity relative humidity at 6 . Oakland hills, relativity between 9 and 2 . Berkeley with winds 15 to 18 Miles Per Hour. The red flag warning will continue. It is for the hills, northbay hills, east bay hills. It does not include the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Coastal Range have been allowed to ex
Across 420,000 acres and that is about 14 times the size of San Francisco and they are still having no containment. It is daunting, it is overwhelming. It is out of control and it is out of anybodys control. We are covering all angles of this massive fire battle including the unhealthy air and the impact as people escape. Lets look at the mountains, where an update is about to began. We are coming to you from the incident command post in the city of Scotts Valley and they have a map that shows significant it has expanded in size overnight. We will get the exact numbers once the press conference gets started. Where we are standing, this is west of highway 17 and we are in the mandatory Evacuation Order area. It will give you a better sense. Look at this map it shows you how big of an area were talking about. The orient shaded in red is a la honda to the north. Skyway 17 to the east and down to santa cruz campus and then the only thing stopping it was the Pacific Ocean to the west. At la
Concord this afternoon. So temperatures right around where we should be for this time of year. Were going to warm things up looking ahead to tomorrow. Less of that onshore flow and talk about that and also hurricane laura. Have details on that as well. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic for the latest on a crash on 880. Yeah, mary i was kind of looking at 880 a little more closely. We had a Traffic Alert at whipple thats now been canceled and all lanes are clear there. Then this delays south of there into fremont. There may be an accident actually in the area involving a couple of vehicles and we have very red on the sensors here and a lot of slowing as you work your way in this area. This is south 880 heading into fremont. Looks like were getting first reports of a crash in that area. So thats going to add to busy ride thats already been happening on the nimitz freeway this morning. 680 looking okay in both directions if you want to use that instead. And if you are taking
We have gotten through the overnight hours and the period with the potential for the most lightning there we have had a few Lightning Strikes across the bay area but not a lot. Most of it was in the Central Valley and the pacific. There is still rain. Look at the showers. Actually, there is more good news because it has been light rain. But when you start to get into the bands of yellow and orange, and into mendocino, that is an example of this lightning. That potential will stay with us until 10 00 this morning. Not to mention, the red flag warning is in effect until 5 00 this evening because of the wind that can still be an issue and there is the issue with that. We are not out of the woods yet but we have gotten through the worst part of the evening in terms of where we would have seen the potential for the most widespread issues with lightning. So here is the forecast. Once the shower was clear out of the north bay, it is just going to be us and the smoke. There will be a lot of sm
Weather alert. The rain will be more intense welcome back. It is time for our weekly chat see the red and purple hue. And well get a chance of with chuck todd, nbc news fast forward this to 2 00, 3 00, thunderstorms as well. Political director and moderator lets take a look at the current of meet the press. Areas north of i would say santa temperature in san jose. Hi, chuck. Cruz, gilroy see a break from 53 degrees. As you saw with the live pic, as always, thanks for joining us were seeing some of the rain. The rain. This morning. Chuck, for the first time the then we get just periods of on take a look at satellite radar. And off again rain. Trump administration snow might be possible near acknowledged staggering numbers 3,500 feet. That could mean local dusting in as i mentioned the majority of our mountain tops, but check out areas south of the golden gate saying 100,000 people could die from the coronavirus and warning the winter storm warning, 6 to bridge, not going to expect too 1