After 30 inches of rain in the forecast with four Southern States already declaring an emergency. Landfall is expected in the next 6 to 7 hours and the big concerns tonight are flooding and potentially life threatening storm surge. Here is a look at the satellite loop sally expected to make landfall near the alabama Mississippi State line. Right now is it is a category one hurricane with 85 mileper hour winds. Reporter that rain continues to just constantly following top of us, really soaking me and drenching me all neethling long. We have this Tropical Storm force winds over and over again. But the storm, as he said, is pushing to the east. That means some folks are going to be released. Others are now going to be in harms way. Waves pick up along the gulf coast as Hurricane Sally inches closer. The storm is packing 85 mile perhour winds, threatening Southeast Louisiana to the florida panhandle. With devastating storm surge and potentially deadly flooding. Sally is expected to make la
All the smoke looks like big bank of clouds. The smoke coming down in our direction from the oregon fires and the fires of california and it is just collecting in the upper levels of the atmosphere. And then the low clouds and fog, the marine layer, down at the surface level. A layer cake effect with the smoke layer above and the marin layer below. And we had a rather vigorous onshore flow with weaker winds aloft. Right now, theyre getting a little stronger but not enough to change the setup that ive just explained to you. Fog. Air quality right now, be nearly as red as you might think by looking at the ugly air. We have yellow dots indicating moderate air quality. We have poor air quality in ukiah and vacaville. Looking southward, oakland, San Francisco, fremont, livermore, san jose, we even have good air quality indicated by the green dots over parts of, well, parts of the santa cruz mountains. The marine layer will push locally inland. We might see some drizzle in the overnight hour
Bay area skies scribed as eerie and a apocalyptic. Some saying they were even scared. The orange atmosphere has quickly turned into a dark night here in the east bay. What people are doing to both remember and cope with the unearthly sky. Smoke choking our skies today. Ill let you know how much longer the air quality will suffer coming up. Purifiers and filters. Air quality experts with tips on how you can take safety a step further. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. If i can imagine what the end of the world was going to look like, it would look like this. Honestly, unlike anything ive ever experienced and ive lived in Northern California for 36 years. Its so dark. Its scary to me. Ive never seen anything like this before. This is strange. Its weird. Its. A dlie like no other in the bay area. Our entire region bathed in an eerie glow of orange and red. A look at why it happens. What a strain day we had. Good eveni
Lifetime snaps of San Franciscos skyline cloaked in a cloud of orange. Its really sad that its the condition the way it is, but it makes for some really dramatic pictures for sure. Reporter both automobile photographers trevor joelen and daniel turned their back to the road and pointed up. Even with the fog, its usually just gray and neutral colors, but today its a lot more orange and red. Reporter in walnut creek, cars were covered in arab and in oakland the zoo closed because of poor air quality. The solar panels on a abc 7 photographers home in pinole generated a fraction of electricity when the suns rays actually reach the earth. Out here in the bay exercising, fishing, doing whatever they can to find some slice of normalcy. I was pretty disoriented, honestly. I missed an appointment. I almost never do that. Reporter Jason Johnson says the weather reminds him of growing up in the midwest. A storm would blow in around the time of a tornado or Something Like that and it would be pitc
Definitely smoggy as we look at San Francisco thorn ais morning. And you see all the areas of unhealthy air. In the monitoday monitory monir have some cleaner air coming. And i think that you could extend the spare the air to saturday and i think that sunday will be the better day and ill show you the smoke forecast coming up next. At the live desk, auge is b. Is iamly just int 3,00 t Ammonium Nitrate exploded just one month ago. 190 people were killed and did you thousands more injured. And this is a live look at the scene. The site of the new fire is creating panic in the area. It is not clear yet what is burning. Well bring you more as information comes in. And now well talk more about that amazing and somewhat scary orange hazy sky that we saw all day yesterday. You are looking at droneview 7 captures this video from iconic landmarks. And Amy Hollyfield is live in the east bay this morning with all the reaction to this hopefully not common sight. Reporter and what did it do to your