yesterday it looked scary. but the air quality wasn t quite so bad because most of the smoke was locked up in that layer above us and we had hada fairly substantial marine layer. l pollutants are coming down to the surface level. let me show you a graphic level. we have a weak ened marine layer and with calm wind at the surface, remember we showed you that layer cake graphic yesterday? here it is, the bottom layer is the marine layer and the top layer is smoke. now the marine layer weakened all and all the matter is am coulding to the surface. you can see on the water vapor image, bringing smoke from the oregon fires and from the northern california fires down into the bay area. so our air quality has diminished significantly. here s a look at current conditions. the orange circles poor air quality and the red is dangerous. that is the pattern across the north bay, bay shore hin overlio the south bay. moderate air quality is in the south bay. that is okay but great. this is o
spare the air days. this is completely unusual. this is not something usual. i have never experienced anything like this. that was aaron richardson, a spokesperson for the bay area quality management district. he went to urge people to stay inside as much as possible when air quality levels reach the very unhealthy level. we talked to some local hardware stores who say air purifiers are flying off the shelves. we sold out of them very quickly and have not been able to get any out of the warehouse. we have almost sold out. we have at this location when left. we are expecting more on monday and tuesday. let s bring in meteorologist mark tamayo with more on the air quality. the question everyone is looking for is if there is any relief in sight from the unhealthy air. we may have to wait a little bit but we were starting to see some changes showing up on the weather map as we head into as early as sunday but a better bet into the early portion of next week for monday,
a somber ceremony marking the 19th anniversary. of the september 11th terror attacks but this year s rememberance has a different look because of the pandemic good evening. everyone, i m grant lotus and i m vicki liviakis thanks for joining us tonight at 8 our top story this evening. still smoke from those wildfires raging across california and oregon leaving the bay area with some of the worst air quality in the world tonight. and that smoke is expected to linger through the weekend. our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow is here with the details on what we should expect lawrence we need that out of here. yeah we certainly do and to get that out of here we need really a push for some good gusty winds right now we re not getting that we just got a light breeze so there you go you ve got sites like this all around the bay area that smoke. just sitting right down on the ground and it s unhealthy all around the bay area in fact right now you re looking at some very unhealth
bay area. i m vicki liviakis and i m grant lotus but the man we really need to know is our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow because if this weather is going to stick around lawrence tells us going to get that yeah i think it s going to get better just going to be slow going this is going to be just slowly. stay. i think we saw some improvement up above we had some mix in the atmosphere bit. little more sunshine pop up in spots still some very poor air quality no getting around it that sits there tonight you can see up toward sfo you see the light you see all the smoke down below and as we look toward the golden gate bridge we ve got some fog rolling on shore that s good. unfortunately. it just kind of a thin marine layer so there again nice pressure off the ocean but that is just mixing with some of the smoke out there as well and they re just so small so much smoke around right now back we ve got some very poor air quality in quite rapidly in fact last hour it was all ac
in new orleans. hurricane sally churning backyard, the gorgeous oakland towards the gulf coast estuary. we have had a bright in rosemar threatening dead surge and deadly flooding. people on the gulf coast are making last minute preparations ahead of hurricane sally arrival filling sandbags as the look happening. storm prepares to make landfall you are right. near the alabama-mississippi that orange sky came to us last border. the storm is expected to move wednesday and then the smoke slowly and dropping up to 30 came the day after and been inches of rain in isolated areas from the central gulf coast to the florida pan with us ever since. handle. once the water gets up high we are seeing some improvement as hoped and expected. enough to start floating debris little improvement with each you want everything tied down passing day. yesterday was better than the to be there when the water goes away. day before and today moderate sally shifted east sparing new orleans from