Evening, everybody im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne tonight, so lets get straight to it. Heres where power shutoffs stand right now this is a pg and e map for right now. And we have Team Coverage tonight we will begin with our Lawrence Karnow in the Weather Center with the latest on the wind event which is really the main concern when it comes to the fire danger tonight. Lawrence yeah, i certainly weve seen some tremendous winds. Well, the strongest wind events of the season so far in fact youre seeing latest image here weve got High Pressure out there in the pacific weve got a low pressure just to our east and really the difference between these 2 which is causing all the gusty winds not only here but around the state southern california. Theyve got the santa ana blowing too. Theyve got an active fire there causing some extremely dangerous conditions right now that ridge building in over the upset in northwest, great basin that low kick into these once these begin
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
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Much out. For many in the bay area, this is what they woke up to this money, if there wasnt a downed tree, many found leaves and branches scattered all over the ground, on the left, a tree fell on Market Street in san jose, damaged some Electrical Equipment and knocked out power, in the middle, those strong winds knocked a tree on 103rd avenue in oakland, it also took out power lines. On the right, city crews were busy cleaning up a downed tree in san leandro this morning. In orinda, we saw downtown banks and businesses in the dark this afternoon, the neighboring cities of moraga and lafayette were also affected, pg e turned off power in a large part of the east bay holes and contra costa and alameda counties today, including parts of berkeley, oakland, and san leandro. You can see the widespread outages indicated by the purple triangles, power was cut all across the bay area, including in sonoma, napa, solano, and marin counties, customers in san mateo and santa clara counties are als
Is off of 4 communities in the mountain regions of san mateo and santa cruz counties in the south bay, the power is out for People Living along east foot hill of san jose outage then runs up to the hills in alameda and contra costa counties. And finally large portions of the north bay are without power this afternoon as well. So lets check in on the bay area forecast right now the weather thats driving these shut offs with kron 4 meteorologist dave spahr today. Good afternoon sanaas everybody were still with our red flag warning thats been extended a little bit weve got some areas of the north bay this will expire by 5 oclock in some selected areas, but in other pieces of real estate were still going to see it world linger on until tomorrow. Afternoon live shot coming in from walnut creek air plenty of sunshine to dish out of course in the current check and winds while the direction is very clear its offshore whether it from the north of the northeast you can see numbers well double di