Start off cold this morning. But very sunny skies outside right now mostly Clear Conditions in fact our live camera showing east bay zone right now this are camera on top the east bay hills on berkeley and we can actually see a street to the bay, so its a nice clear morning. But it is very cold check out these that chilly temperatures 40s and 50s right now that im tracking but things are going to change into the afternoon because were going to start to heat up and actually get 70s on the board if you can believe that were going to be well above seasonal averages but then tomorrow, big changes are on the way because look at all that rain all that green on your screen that storm system is headed straight or direction in fact we could start seeing raindrops early tomorrow morning so your commute into work might be a little bit of a wet one so make sure that you grab the umbrellas get those ready tonight and your rain coats because were going to need those for a couple of days, ill let you
Along the coastline. A little bit of a cooler afternoon than what we saw yesterday to get this weekend started so weather is definitely cooperating today. The big question is will traffic be friday light as we work our way towards the weekend and it doesnt look like its too bad just yeah looking pretty good so far john but we do have some construction thats wrapping up so little slow on the nimitz but at least its not a major hot spot so were off to a fantastic start. Heres a live. Look at one of your busy bridges and thats 92. No surprise right its always busy or the busy especially during the 4 oclock 5 oclock hour. So it continues to fill in as we enter new hour lots of brake lights but no problem so this is good 12 minutes for your drive to the peninsula here at the bay bridge 80 west not as busy very quiet 11 minutes off to fremont street and heres the construction that i mentioned so its 80 north north of high street. Theyre always a little late picking up the cones some time wor
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
Still ahead robin. A pretty busy commute to San Francisco right now thanks to an early trouble spot. Of Treasure Island so lets go. Dont know whats wrong with the mikes all toss it back to you i will work on that thanks a lot robin. Meantime the big story that were following is possible Power Outages people are bracing for shut offs pg and e is releasing more information too about which areas could be impacted. Yeah weve got kron 4 Sarah Stinson standing by in Sonoma County with a look at what we can all expect sarah good morning. Other finally releasing you know which counties how many customers will be affected by this power shut off if it happens. Tomorrow afternoon and it could be as many as 22,000 customers take a look at your screen we rode out each county for you and spelled out just how many people would be affected you can see there on your screen it would be including alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo counties and then as we slide over to the next one napa sonoma
On the forecast absolutely guys its the weather. The hot weather the dry conditions were still in the midst of. And then of course the winds that have been persistent so far this week and will remain throughout the rest of the week too clear skies towards the coast than we have seen in previous days. But a little less marine layer means that we even do have red flag warnings now in effect for summer coastal spots like Half Moon Bay, upper elevations on the peninsula. All of the inland east bay and those same areas as we had been saying up in the north bay so more red flag warnings as winds do gradually spread across the rest of the bay area, north northeast winds at 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour mostly but upper elevations that are more exposed to those higher gusts could see gusts as high as 40 Miles Per Hour all the way through friday. Maybe calm right now, but look at where we had this afternoon widespread windy conditions breezier for upper elevations, windy or even tomorrow for your thu