Usaa. What youre made of, were made for. Usaa total darkness and dishes that arent done. The power shut off came early in some areas. And ta are not happy about it. Firefighters and pilots are ready to respond to any potential fires. Strong gusty winds peaking over night. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Right away we have Team Coverage for you tonight. Up in the north bay. One of the first places in the bay area where residents had power cut. In the east bay where residents have been told they should be thinking about evacuating because of the fire danger. We start with the meteorologist monitoring those winds and they are picking up. They are. I want to show you current winds. They are strongest through parts of north bay. Napa gusting to 35 Miles Per Hour. Fair field 38 Miles Per Hour. We see strong gusts in the east bay. Oakland and hayward and concord. Over 35 Miles Per Hour. If we go to the Higher Elevation its stronger than that. Check out mount hood. Gusts up to 60 Miles
And friday really in the midst of it as winds begin to pick up. I mean theres one telltale sign of the winds right there is why are your Center Towers shot waving a bit back and forth and what is otherwise a really beautiful view. Fire weather with red flag warnings in effect now all the way through friday at 11 00am for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains nearly all of the east bay once you head into the east bay mountains in the inland valleys and then across the north bay to winds, especially in the north bay going to be gusting into a 50 mile per hour range at times. Winds already picked up compared to earlier this morning atlas peak vacaville, petaluma among some breezy spots winds will gradually increase on into the afternoon today you see that areas like vacaville in petaluma as well as down into the south bay at the tonight into tomorrow morning will be the breezy us tough conditions. This is thursday morning at 04 45am right here likely before youre getting up youll h
During this time as of right now temperatures are still comfortable ahead of what will be a warmer afternoon. 50s and 60s for most areas, couple 70s on the map though like in novato at 73 degrees. Later today. It will be solid 80s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose. While some 90s elsewhere in the bay, well talk more about that still ahead back to you robin all right, thank you for the update John Elliotts update your morning commute. Were checking in on the traffic out there and theres not much right now heading into San Francisco, heres a live. Look at the bay bridge toll plaza where traffic is nice and light and smooth, but no big problems across the upper deck, so its always nice when we can start office way right. Its going to stay like this all the way out to one oh one and to 80. All right, lets check in on the san mateo bridge were taking a peek at 92 and look at the westbound traffic busier and busier every time we take a look so get on out there early its already a littl
Is no existence, a marine layer anywhere across the bay, it is Crystal Clear as offshore winds begin to kick up pushing any chance of fog are moist air. Well offshore red flag warnings as i mentioned are already in effect for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay and almost all of the north bay until you had a right to the immediate coastline. Now these will be in effect from friday this or wednesday this morning through friday morning at 11 00am winds gusting as high as 45 Miles Per Hour which is the additional factor here on top of the already dry and warm weather weve seen this week that is sparking up this potential of a fastspreading wildfire. Now winds are already breezy this morning but by no means at our wind is just yet. Winds about 10 Miles Per Hour for much of the north bay at this point well continue to pick up into the afternoon by 03 30pm Vacaville Atlas peak looking at winds gusting from 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour peak, wind gusts and early
Reporter some places that were on the list were spared any outage at all and others saw the weather subside and few problems getting power back on. But there are still 32,000 customers spending a second night without. It was last night at eight zero 7 pm. That is a good thing. Reporter generators and extension cords put away as neighborhoods in the mount diablo foothills were reenergized by pg e. They are dependent on weather forecast. Reporter this home and retire for the phone company and recalls it is better to under promise than to disappoint. You get your outside estimate because that is what people need to plan for the worst event or the worst case. We feel pretty comfortable that once there restored they will stay on. Reporter it is nightly briefing they said overnight winds delivered in mount st. Helena recording a 65 mileper hour gust and winds are forecast to ramp up again in the north the overnight so napa and sonoma counties will stay out. Areas with the all clear have been