Drew, still windy . Yeah. Breezy out there. The strongest winds have subsided. But man, was it windy last night. Look at these peak wind gusts. Gt later at night the winds race down our hillsides. Oakland airport reported a gust of 58 miles an hour. In the oakland hills, we had winds in excess of 50 miles an hour. Very windy in the east conqu conqu conquered. Right now, the winds have backed off in a lot of spots. Still some isolated that you can see in napa and fairfield. 23 and 30 miles an hour respectively. But much of the area has winds about 10 miles an hour. Were nomp near where we were this morning. Wind gusts in excess of 70 miles miles. Its not only the wind we were concerned about. Its the bone dry air. You hook at the dew points and think what is a dew point. The best way i like to shape it to people. See the numbers on the screen where we have negative seven in santa rosa. Zero in napa. What you would do is you would have to cool the air temperature down to minus seven in s
They expect and deserve. That helps them live their lives and run their businesses. And this weighs heavily on everyone, including us at pg e. This is not how we want to serve you. And this is not how we want to run our business. Were actually in the business of providing power, not taking power away. So we feel the impact of the decision, and i understand how it alters, how it disrupts the normal flow of life and the normal flow of community. But theres another part of the reality that were in. With winds like we saw over the last 24 hours or so and the condition of the vegetation, we simply could not continue to run parts of this system given the risk to Public Safety. We struggle with this decision, as we do with any decision to turn off power. We weigh the level of acceptable risk given the circumstances, the wind, and the vegetation, and we determine that we must have zero risk of a spark. So what exactly was the risk . Well, we know from history that wind speeds, the wind speeds
Their business. And this weighs heavily on everyone, including those of us at pga. This is not how we want to and this is not how we want to run our business were actually in the business of. Not taking power away. So we feel the impact of the understand. Heres how it just wraps. The normal flow of life and the normal flow of commuters. He that worry us. With winds like we saw over the last 24 hours or so and the condition of the vegetation. We simply could not continue to run parts of this system. Given the risk to Public Safety. We struggle was decision as we do with any decision to turn. We weigh the level of acceptable risk given the circumstances the wind and the vegetation. So what exactly was the rest. Well, we know from history. That wind speeds have the wind speeds at which our lives can be effective and cause a fire. Wind speeds at about 45. Bleacher risk on the distribution line. A little light to go to your house for that same risk appears on the transmission lines which ar
At this hour in many locations in the north bay. Overnight pg e started cutting power to more than 500,000 homes and businesses, 200,000 in the north bay, thats due to the high fire danger and the red flag warning, this is a live look at the outages, you can see that large swatch of purple across the north bay, this is phase one according to pg e. Now a second phase is set to start about noon, and last at least through tonight. Outages will impact parts of contra costa, santa clara, alameda and san mateo counties. In the second phase, 234,000 homes and businesses are expected to be impacted. Also this morning, many schools and universities across the bay have canceled classes preemptively today. You can see our ticker there rolling on the bottom of the screen with the schools listed, and the south bay bracing for outages as well. We expect san jose mayor sam liccardo will hold a news conference, at 7 00 a. M. We will stream that live. Kari hall is tracking the red flag warning and conc
And San Francisco, 6164 in palo alto, 7277 degrees and the system is right in front. You can see it. Its july 9th and we will have widespread rain to portland and lifting north east to be in their forecast and not mine but high clouds could drift across Mendocino County or lake county and golden gate north but a lot of it is lifting out of the picture. Low clouds will be with us and 50s on the temps and some 40s on the peninsula and 47 in woodside with low to mid50s for just about everybody. Half moon bay, as well, not much of a breeze. Sfo west at eight and livermore at three with a little bit of an onshore breeze but not strong compared to the last few days and when the system kicks through, High Pressure builds in. Upper 70s and low 80s. We had something on the bay bridge. Is that better . It is better. Slow traffic, but one thing that is slow is the drive to the petas on interstate 80, its been backed up because of a crash southbound on 880 near Dixon Landing that was reportedly ca