Lightning sparked fires. Cal fire at this point has not yet given any specific information on the size or the containment of the fires. Evacuations are underway due to fires along Hennessy Ridge road. As we get more information, we will bring it to you. All of this is happening as a heat wave continues in the bay area. Governor newsom will give an update on the states response to the heat wave as well as the covid pandemic. He signed a proclamation to free up Energy Capacity and reduce the need for Service Disruptions which we saw through the weekend. We will bring you the governors News Conference as soon as it gets underway. We will bring in rosemary with how high the temperatures are going. Another bad day today. The northbay looks like its bullseye for the time being. Temperatures again are expected to be near record breaking. Lets take a look at stormtracker 2. We will zoom in over areas over the northbay. We watched it move from offshore to on shore. You can see all of those ligh
Are going to do everything we can to protect it. Getting word, another wild fire is burning nearby . Thats right, the gamble fire is off of knoxville road west of berks somewhere around 375 acres right now as of 1 00 this afternoon. It has 0 containment so a couple of different hotspots burning from the Lightning Storm here in napa county this afternoon. The trouble can be traced back to this ind yon see the ou clouds in this timelapse. Lets get to paul heggen tracking these Lightning Storms as well as this extreme heat. Paul . The fire crews are going to be battling over the next several days as a continuation of the heat wave even as the Stormy Weather pattern quiets down. These heat indices are the feels like temperature, the equivalent to the wind chill. Its officially 89, the feels like tempter in napa itself north the purple shading indicates plenty of heat indices around or above 100 degrees. Tomorrow is going to be another day of extreme heat. Temperatures from 12 to 17 degrees
Of rolling blackouts to ease demand on the states electrical grid. Its all happening amid days of long heat wave that is also fueling a number of wildfires more than a dozen active wildfires are currently burning across the golden state, including several in here right here in the bay area that have prompted evacuation warnings. Tonight we have Live Team Coverage of the ongoing heat wave in the impacts from it Ashley Zavala is live in sacramento with the governor with what the governor is now demanding in light of those blackouts kron fours dan kerman though joins us live from the east bay on the deers own fires but first kron 4 meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is tracking the dangerous conditions now fueling these blazes or so. Hi there. Jonathan yeah lets take a look at stormtracker 4 plenty of thunderstorms rolling through parts of ukiah in clear lake right now we do have a red flag warning so high fire danger in effect right now for lake and mendocino counties but for us here in the
Especially up in the north bay today that moisture plume is sitting a bit further out into the coast. What that means is areas further north bolton mendocino counties will see the opportunity of an isolated thunderstorm. Well we really take a step back from that in the bay area today so worrying less about any sort of heavy rain or thunderstorm but still having to worry about the heat that we are going to be seeing. 80s 90s and triple digits back in play with livermore concord antioch at one of 3 to 106 degrees. Napa and santa rosa also triple digits and upper 80s in hayward mideighties in oakland, San Francisco right at 80 degrees today. Ive got more details on what to expect right where youre at this forecast. Still ahead daria. Thanks a lot john lets get to the breaking news now for big wildfires are burning across the east bay and in the north bay this morning. They were sparked likely by lightning. Lets take a look at a map that shows you where these 4 fires are burning yeah right
For most areas. We have thunderstorms on sunday morning a few of them yesterday too that moisture plume that bought us brought us that rain and thunderstorm activity is further out west Still Holding on to that potential to our north right across the very northern part of the state. But today youll notice that the bay area little drier, the whole lot calmer than what we had been seeing, but still just as hot. Concord in antioch at one 06 for your highs livermore morgan hill portions of the north bay like napa and santa rosa well into the triple digits. 80s return for oakland in nevado more details and the rest of your forecast all still ahead back to you darya. Thanks a lot john lets get back to the big news which are the wildfires, 4 of them burning in the east bay and in the north bay. Likely all sparked by lightning, lets take a closer look at the map james. And i want to start in the east base we have the marsh fire thats that complex its burning near the sun all regional wildernes