The Santa Cruz Mountains in the oakland area right the Oakland Hills above a 1000 feet or so the diablo range also looking at some very gusty winds there and that will be the case some of these gusts of 25 to maybe 45 Miles Per Hour maybe the gusting higher than that in spots are going to see that especially over the top of the mountains very very gusty winds right latest on the computer models you can see youve got a little bit of a breeze out there in fact a little bit of a sea breeze returned today but not for long all of a sudden we get that offshore wind look at the colors rolling in the bay area and these are down the urban areas got 2030 mile an hour winds down a place like Petaluma Santa Rosa also calistoga sonoma up on the mountain tops. It will be a lot more gusting than that of course we are primed with fire with treasure record breaking heat, so certainly some dangerous weather ahead as fire danger is going to be running extremely high. Thank you or some other big element t
Parts of lake county, 24 customers would be impacted. This is a situation that is developing right now well have more information coming up in a live interview with pg any i lets going to check in on the weather is the live picture right now over downtown San Francisco. A hot one all day long red flag warning its going to be in effect for upper elevations across the bay area starting at 10 oclock tonight. Kron fours a chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is standing by with the wet in the Weather Center with the very latest laura you guys remember that after that last big he way we had. We had a Lightning Strike so were primed with the hot weather. Were not going to the Lightning Strikes this time. Now were going get the gusty winds so should a fire start in those kind of conditions extremely dangerous. Look at the temperatures we had today now is on top of the record breakers we had yesterday numerous records falling a 112 in livermore say one 11 in the napa valley, one 10 and santa ro
This afternoon that there is enough energy to power. The state and that your conservation efforts helped. However pg any which supplies power to most of Northern California says that due to weather conditions. Safety power shutoff could happen for 2 bay area counties starting as soon as 09 00pm tonight, those 2 counties are napa and sonoma counties this interactive map on the pga any website shows the areas where customers could be affected. We should add that parts of lake county will also be affected in total more than 158,000 customers across 21 counties could be affected tonight. I want to bring in Lawrence Karnow water talk about this excessive heat warning. And the weather conditions that might prompt a shot off port yeah were going to see some very gusty winds developing overnight tonight. Its tomorrow week air of low pressure kind of dropping over the top of that ridge and moving to colorado eastward as that moves through of some of High Pressure building in behind it. We start
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot
Well forcing on top of breaking news at this hour more than 20 fires burning out of control in whats now known as the santa clara unit lightning complex. The flames spreading across 5 different counties from santa clara to alameda. The contra costa, san joaquin and Stanislaus County kron fours dan kerman is live tonight in pleasanton with the very latest on the firefight there dan. Where the cal fire command post in this is where they are staging as they fight the fires throughout this region as you mentioned it is covering many different counties, 25,000 acres charred so far that was as of this morning we still dont have an updated number at this point they were 0 contained again waiting for an updated number there, but they are going to be here for quite some time battling this blaze. Plumes of smoke off in the distance doesnt really tell the story of the santa clara units lightning complex fire. In fact, its at least 20 separate fires divided into 3 zones fire started on sunday prob