left, you can see it from space. leland: all of that is causing serious air quality problems across san francisco and other cities in california. the mail woman there is wearing a mask as is the ups driver. adam klotz in the extreme weather center with more on the smoke impact. hi there, leland. it continues to be an issue and the winds has shifted again. and they re dealing with the high fire danger, current it s the conditions, again, bone dry humidity. the winds picking back up. we ve got red flag warnings in north central california an area where the fires have been going. there s paradise. each one of the little lines is a wind barb, showing the direction of the winds. it s picking up the locations where the fire is high and danger is high and pushing it. even though there s not a fire in san francisco, it s push west and driving that smoke. unfortunately smoke is an issue throughout the entire weekend.
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in with chad myers. i see you have japan on the map. you must be talking about radiation. well, it depends on which way the wind blows, so to speak, which way some of this radiation dust and humidity can go. what we don t want is a wind out of the northeast that blows wind, blows radiation, blows dust and all that back toward tokyo, back toward the most pop lated places. and what we ve seen so far, this is going to be the next 45 hours, watch that wind barb right there because there s the plant, that wind barb kind of slips around a little bit, back and forth, by mainly offshore. light and variable winds for the rest of the week, i would say less than five miles per hour. they would like maybe a little bit high eer than that to blow e radiation farther away, not have it linger around the plant. but you get what you get and at least it isn t coming in. the bay yway you get a big prob for tokyo, plant a low there, call it a nor easter, a lot like what we d have running up the east coas