Lunchtime. Still breezy enough as you can notice though just not as windy as this morning as and winds remaining with us enough into the early evening that yeah, fire danger is still of concern today, especially when youre talking temperatures as warm as we will have them again. 60s 70s and even some 80s to kick off this morning. Berkeley conquered Fairfield Beach at 77 degrees falling out of the 80s in berkeley just minutes ago. Alameda at 75 right now. Later todays daytime highs still in the upper 90s inland, mid 90s by the bay and some mid 80s right along the coastline. Robin. All right, thank you for the update lets update the morning commute which is off to a very quiet start to like what i see out there and checking the drive into San Francisco. So lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza there it is traffic nice and smooth here at the pay gates easy going across the upper deck and no major issues there downtown San Francisco, heres 92. Its our busiest yes, we have a bi
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San jose each at 94 today. Robin. All right, thank you john we still have a big problem in San Francisco and thats a multi vehicle accident that resulted in a car fire. So several lanes are blocked in the traffic is creeping along in both directions here so this is one oh one south. After cesar chavez before to 80. Cruz may still have the 3 left lanes blocked there working to get this out of the way but the back of just continues to grow so the southbound james lick is backed up on to almost the whole stretch of the southbound central and its also backing up onto the westbound skyway so as you leave downtown San Francisco on 80 west and start to merge onto one oh one youre going to be stuck in that nasty little backups there the opposite side nothings blocked for now but north one o one its a mess north one is backed up beyond to 80 and now to 3rd street, so if youre only traveling into downtown San Francisco stay away from one oh one use to 80 instead its going to be wide open and it
This is not story we want to start with today. You got that fire that started already and weve got a significant wind event coming to the bay area in fact red flag warnings going up across the entire bay area as we look toward the weekend were going to see these winds really begin to pick up so weve had some breeze out there today a little bit of more of an on shore flow out there some westerly winds thats all going to change over the weekend going to see more of a northerly wind so yeah, a lot of the hills have been talking about red flag warnings as of sunday into monday were talking red flag warnings for the entire bay area with some of those gusts. Maybe 6070 Miles Per Hour the peak. So that is a major concern a fire now burning in the north bay wind right now out of the west you can see that sea breeze kind of kicking in and as we head through the day tomorrow, well start out fairly calm then we get toward the afternoon. Those winds start to pick up again and they start to get on
L a new fire in fact those fires you can tell that the brush there was already set ready to go so youre in very active fire region and now weve got another fire burning. And weve got some very strong winds coming on the way. Winds right now weve seen of the 1618 Miles Per Hour in fire certainly enough to move that fire long. But thats not what were most concerned about is the winds that will likely take place this weekend, red flag warnings are going up for the entire bay area over the weekend expecting some 4050 mile an hour gusts, even down in the valley floors were going to see some very gusty winds extremely low humidity maybe even some places less than 10 and over the mountain tops maybe some 6070 mile an hour winds. So here we go put this into motion now as we take in tomorrow morning, not bad just an easy breeze. Now the west generally but then things begin to start to shift gears we start to see things pick up and by the afternoon and evening tomorrow, those winds start to pick