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
And friday really in the midst of it as winds begin to pick up. I mean theres one telltale sign of the winds right there is why are your Center Towers shot waving a bit back and forth and what is otherwise a really beautiful view. Fire weather with red flag warnings in effect now all the way through friday at 11 00am for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains nearly all of the east bay once you head into the east bay mountains in the inland valleys and then across the north bay to winds, especially in the north bay going to be gusting into a 50 mile per hour range at times. Winds already picked up compared to earlier this morning atlas peak vacaville, petaluma among some breezy spots winds will gradually increase on into the afternoon today you see that areas like vacaville in petaluma as well as down into the south bay at the tonight into tomorrow morning will be the breezy us tough conditions. This is thursday morning at 04 45am right here likely before youre getting up youll h
Is no existence, a marine layer anywhere across the bay, it is Crystal Clear as offshore winds begin to kick up pushing any chance of fog are moist air. Well offshore red flag warnings as i mentioned are already in effect for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay and almost all of the north bay until you had a right to the immediate coastline. Now these will be in effect from friday this or wednesday this morning through friday morning at 11 00am winds gusting as high as 45 Miles Per Hour which is the additional factor here on top of the already dry and warm weather weve seen this week that is sparking up this potential of a fastspreading wildfire. Now winds are already breezy this morning but by no means at our wind is just yet. Winds about 10 Miles Per Hour for much of the north bay at this point well continue to pick up into the afternoon by 03 30pm Vacaville Atlas peak looking at winds gusting from 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour peak, wind gusts and early
And practicing covid19 norms. Masks for Everyone Welcome back is a mask from us hand sanitizer, temperature gauges we want everyone to feel like they are in a safe place. Reporter one of roughly 1800 pg e customer set to lose power in sonoma county. Much higher napa 9200 customers. And eastern Solano County some 900 customers will be affected 80 to 90 and lake county said to be impacted the next few days because of a red flag warning. Height winds expected early friday morning expected to get the most friday morning with estimated restorable times friday night. Reporter because pg es equipment was blamed for sparking the wine country of ours in 2017 the utility began cutting power the following year to prevent similar incident as stop. Humidity forecast to drop below 20 in high wind exceeds 25 Miles Per Hour. We reported on customers who complained about using and losing food when teaching with dark. Attribute organizations is to the redwood empire for being customers can have food rep
Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa