Burning in the Angeles National forest near pasadena. The mountains continue to glow from the flames. So far more than 26,000 acres burned, and this is just 6 finding clean air to breathe contained. We have our own problems here. Has become a struggle. Air purifiers are hard to find. The smoke and the ash. Our air quality is the worst this is coal hardware north beach in San Francisco. Its been in weeks. They tell us they only had one you can see all that red on the air purifier in stock this aqi map. That means unhealthy air. Morning, and then their supplier this is a Staggering Amount of is nearly sold out. But an employee says you can smoke covering the west coast. This satellite image taken this actually make your own. Afternoon, you can see if you have a box fan at blanketing california and up to home, theyre relatively oregon and washington. Lets get right to our chief inexpensive. Meteorologist jeff ranieri. You can buy a filter, a 20 by 20 jeff, we know this is challenging beca
Grant lotus. And im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 the highly unusual sight all across the bay area skies. Its just better. All people are talking about today indeed taking a live look outside right now across the bay from the bay bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge. The san mateo bridge to the richmond sandra fell bridge. It looks normal right now, but all day. It was just about as dark run for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow begins our Team Coverage explaining. What weve been witnessing in how long the skies could stay like this lawrence whats going on yet let my entire life here in california have never seen a day like today wake up to the orange skies and certainly. Was concern looking at the maps though you can see where it came from not the more fires locally but number we have the paradise fire a few years back that but all the smoke in the bay area will now weve got another fire near theyre called the bear fire. Weve also got the august complex and t
Pam moore, it is all everybody is talking about today the orange red skies alacross the bay area that blow thanks to the wildfire smoke drifting across our area blocking out the sun, heres what it looks like right now you see the upper lefthand corner ats the Richmond Sandra fell bridge toll plaza. The right hand corner at the top the san mateo bridge. The lower right corner 6. 80 in walnut creek and the left lower corner, the bay bridge toll plaza and every place has that orange haze in the sky kron 4 seed meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now with the forecast lawrence how long could this be with us when you thought twentytwenty couldnt get any more strange here we go but. That smoke is going to be with us for a bit now remember were talking about. That offshore wind yesterday that north northeasterly wind we had a couple of to our north we had won the bear fire there near paradise where we had a fire there that provide a lot of smoke in the bay area a few years back also the au
The bay area and beyond so many viewers, sharing pictures and videos like these today, thank you so much for sending them in helping us understand the scope of this problem, the smoky air mostly coming from wildfires, burning north of us. Yes for the air alert spanning woodburning as you can imagine is going to be in effect through at least friday now in the bay areas thick smoke from wildfires continues to envelop the region creating this orange hazy sky businesses is the 25th straight day. The air district is issued a spare the air alert. And here to explain the Science Behind all the weird colors out there Lawrence Karnow the guys just when i thought this is going to be kind of a slow weather day done with all the heat waves and everything else. Here we go one of the strangest days ive ever experienced in weather waking up to the orange skies outside. And all that smoke coming down from the fires and certainly it moved along want to push on through bringing with a lot of smoke not f
Skies blanket the bay area from dawn till dusk. Thanks for joining u. S. Attorney and everybody high Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus certainly surreal lot of people saying these ominous skies were in a way stunning yet certainly. Unsettling to wake up to hard to know what time it was all day long want to check in first with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow. Obviously everyones wondering lawrence is going to happen again tomorrow. Yeah i think well start to see some improvement tomorrow were not going to see asked smoky conditions around the bay area but certainly. Theyll still be some smoke out there we had those north northeasterly winds remember were talking about the high fire danger yesterday, were worried about the real gusty winds. Well, those winds didnt cause or sparking fires around the bay area but we did have a fires that were already burning in far Northern California up you county near paradise they another fire burning there the bear fire lot of smoke filtering i