Residents. This is the latest outage map on pg and es website. Those pink triangles indicate areas without power because of the Public Safety power shut offs. Thank you for joining us tonight on this monday night im pam moore welcome everybody, im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne. Pg and e began shutting off power over the weekend ahead of a major wind event and take a look at these wind speeds these were recorded overnight saint helene a reported wind gusts of 89 miles an hour. Healdsburg 83 miles an hour blackhawks 68 hawkeye 61 pittsburgh, 57 Miles Per Hour oakland, 51 Miles Per Hour and the danger unfortunately is still not over and chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking of another round of strong winds. Yeah just a classic offshore wind event developing out there right now weve seen this play out weve seen some of the worst fire conditions and some very bad fire start under these exact kind of conditions right now High Pressure sitting there in the pacific as a ridge bui
Around for a little while longer lets check in with john and get more about that. Yeah guys winds definitely still present for a large part of the bay area while some of us have calmed down so its a mixed bag this morning as opposed to yesterdays generally windy conditions all across the region. We have seen some improvements and well continue to see those in the days to come so that your good news for sure you look outside from center tower shows you just how clear those skies are a brilliant sunrise whether youre at the coast or further inland as marine layer, not really a factor this morning, its dry and it is breezy for many areas. The combination of those 2 factors resulting in the heightened fire danger for especially the north bay and then upper elevations in the east bay, our breezy a spots right now being Vacaville Atlas peak calistoga and sonoma danville in petaluma also notably on the breezy side. Later this morning still windy for these same areas while still calm for the o
From San Francisco. Our breezy as to various vacaville atlas peak Fairfield Napa sonoma calistoga in petaluma even danville in the east bay looking at some steady winds right now Oakland Haywards in san jose as well San Francisco, all backing off the strongest winds winds will remain steady across her upper elevations and through the north bay through the morning. But by the time we work our way into the afternoon a bit of a calmer situation, this is 02 00pm here and starting to show signs of calming down red flag warnings that still hold on in her upper elevations of the east bay north bay in all of solano and napa counties will remain until 05 00pm after which point well see them expiring in some improving conditions for the next few days and hopefully the return to power for a lot of us that are in the midst of those Power Outages right now right now novato youre at 46 degrees happening bay of 48 to avert coolest of spots while napa one of our breezier areas is also one of our. Warm
Balan muchas warns that the county has to get its act together unfortunate reality is that we are seeing case numbers that are higher than they should be for us to remain in red and unfortunately that puts us at risk of going back in the purple. You know the cause of it is obviously people getting together with family and friends and letting their guard down so that disease spreads and we had several weeks ago several large as ants that we believe accounted for that spike that theyre not just says the spike could be temporary at least hes hoping thats the case he points to several recent events as examples of behavior that is detrimental to the countys progression in reopening involving 300 people with no social distanced staying lee and its a wedding at a home with 40 people no social distancing no and then there was some type of the news sent invitation only event was a large number of people again no social distancing and we had dozens of cases from these events doctor much as says
Anticipate a very cool start by the afternoon we are back to some comfortable weather with highs into the 70s and 80s. Robin its good. Thank you lets check in on the morning commute. Its always nice. When we can start off hot spot free right. We dont have any problems on 80 into San Francisco taking a live look this is your approach to the toll plaza and so far so good sell 7 minutes, quick right on time off to fremont street, heres 92 we have the westbound traffic leaving hayward heading over to the peninsula a little crowded yes back no 12 minutes and growing off to one oh one and just scanning for some of our busiest freeways during the morning drive theyre all at the limit so far so we have sure westbound 15 minutes, 24 out of walnut creek wide open no problems for 5. 80 or the nimitz freeway connecting from to 38 to 9. 80 entering downtown oakland is off to a great start so far well check more coming up back to you, thanks a lot robin 5 oh one and our top story more bay area count