Thats because heavy winds and hot dry air are creating ideal fire conditions. Just what we do not need. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Once again our coverage begins with abc 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian for whats happening right now and in the days ahead. Spencer . Okay, dan. Ama was right. We have ideal fire conditions. We have rising temperatures. Very low relative humidity and gusty winds that are only getting stronger. Right now as you look at current temperature readings you can see we have mid 90s, mid to upper 90s in many inland areas, even a couple 90s around the bay shoreline, and its 80 degrees in San Francisco. As we move along you can see that the wind gusts right now in the Higher Elevations are getting stronger and stronger. They will likely get Even Stronger in the nighttime hours. So as a result we have a red flag warning for high fire danger in effect until midday friday. This is not only for the hills but the hills
Catholic church which is serving as a Community Resource center. Here they have a water snacks, wi fi and much more of course charging stations as well but just a mile down the road were starting to see those power shutoffs in full swing. Pg and e customers in napa county prepared for a Public Safety power shutoff wednesday evening for some folks in saint the shutdowns already begin people like pat mcgrail foot up several gas cans to get through the next couple of days, im gasoline for generators. I have my house and my neighbors house. She lights going. Weve had to clean out the refrigerator which is a horrible job. And then be able to run them again and the generators. Were on wells so we have no water. And to go good. Water she could flush something the girls all too familiar with. He had to evacuate for the lnu lightning complex fire and was evacuated again for 17 days with the more recent glassfire he lives off Glass Mountain road or power was already down from the fire no cable.
East bay will be windy at times maybe some gusts over 30 Miles Per Hour down below the 4050 up above already started to see a change in the winds and youll see numbers running in the 2030 mile an hour range across the north bay mountains right now the 31 right now that lets be 33 so discreet 27 spanish flat, so these winds start to ramp up and then notice the direction too coming out of a northerly direction that is that very dry hot wind now developing looks like it will intensify overnight tonight. You see all the color of the Central Valley start to see the winds picking up already. This is going to kind of settle in overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. So you can see a lot of colors, the red even some purple beginning to show up those are gusts over 40 maybe 50 Miles Per Hour. Now as we head to the middle of the day tomorrow love the winds are going to move a little further to the south so stay blustery in the north bay, but i think picking up in places like the oakland h
Into a range of 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour, especially in the north bay. Were actually seeing that right now vacaville calistoga in sonoma have been seeing winds throughout the morning gusting well into that 30 mile per hour range, pretty consistently, those peak, wind gusts even more than that danville also on the breezier side right now 27 mile per hour winds. Breezy in pockets across the rest of the bay area too winds remain consistent throughout the morning were continuing to see power shutoffs for portions of the north bay due to those winds low humidity and the heat by the time we work towards 07 30am this morning calistoga sonoma vacaville still in the midst of some of those stronger winds. We briefly back or higher wind speeds early this afternoon before picking up yet again on into the evening tonight into early tomorrow. Then we officially see things coming down and staying calm for the weekend after that point so there is relief in sight. Today and tomorrow our hottest under wi
Under red flag warnings throughout the course of this past evening, well be throughout the day today and into the middle of the day tomorrow as winds continue to be quite gusty up in the north bay. Its been 20 to 30 mile per hour gusts, pretty consistently across many of our north bay cities in our inland east bay areas. The deeper red contours on here showing you where winds are the most problematic right now. In addition to the already very dry conditions. We remain windy through the morning. Hold back the winds a little bit this afternoon coming down for some areas and then it picks right back into gear come the evening tonight, staying windy through early tomorrow before we do eventually see some common conditions. Midday tomorrow through the weekend just around the corner which will offer us really from the heightened fire danger were in the midst of as we speak, 60s and 70s for current temperatures already pretty warm in oakland in livermore at 75 degrees each well some 50s up in