Effect lets get straight to the maps you can get an idea of who is affected and let me tell you basically the whole bay areas under this red flag warning you can see in the map most of the barriers that pink which means the red flag warning is in effect one this afternoon for the glass fire region in the north bay as we said earlier can be very difficult for firefighters up there facing these high winds and high temps east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains the last time we saw a red flag warning the class fire erupted over the weekend. So now more than ever its time to take this seriously. Theyre going to be northwest winds of 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour with gusts of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. We also have dry conditions throughout the whole bay area with low humidity which is a recipe for a wildfire. Scary to think that another one can or ups we have to do everything we can. To help out theres a power flex alert going into effect at 3 this afternoon youre being asked to conserve electrici
Red flag warning its causing that to go really affects everyone in the bay area, not just here in the east bay, but also those in the north bay where that fire is burning right as well as east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains last time we saw a red flag warning the glass fire erupted over the weekend. So now more than ever we need to take this seriously its no joke time to get that go bag there are going to be northwest winds up 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour with gusts of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. They also have dry conditions throughout the bay area with very low humidity which is a recipe for a wildfire. Power flex alert is going into effect at 3 this afternoon and youre being asked to conserve electricity, everyone if they put in a little bit the maybe we can prevent Power Outages because we know those can be a pain. Heres some tips on your screen turn your thermostat to 78 degrees turn off unnecessary lights close your blinds and drapes to keep your home cool dont use major appliances d
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You need to be doing should be just fine as you are getting out there. Right now temperatures are coolest nears the coast and up in the north bay 60s for most of our inland areas, some of our warmer spots with pittsburgh at 63 livermore dublin and conquered all at 62 to start this morning. Skies are generally clear the further inland you get with some of the low fog near the coastline do watch out for hayes in our inland valleys though, as we still do have some smoke coming up from wildfires. Nice calm winds around our north bay fires this morning as well as what were seeing in the south bay, some really calm winds in the vicinity there so that is definitely good news. The best news that weve got this morning as air quality is at least starting things off on a really good know we are looking at moderate with little impact poor air quality near the coastline and through the east bay, some of our worst stuff is still up in the north part of the Central Valley and now to the sierra foothi
Center right now with that and then well get to the headlines. Hey josh. There james, as you mentioned laura category 4 hurricane as it made landfall cameron louisiana last night at one am. Still making an impact all across that state this morning as the center of the storm gradually makes its way northward. We are anticipating still some very strong winds, although the storm itself has weakened to a category 2 now. The big concern here right along the coastline was a storm surge that stretches not just a few miles inland, but as much as 40 miles inland as it makes its way up those bayous and low lying planes right there along the shoreline what we are saying is i 10 closed from the texas border all the way east of areas likely charles and the storm Still Producing some very heavy rain as well as winds that are still strong but continuing to weaken as it makes its way inland. Good news is storm surge was not as bad as it could have been but still big rainmaker and definitely a strong s