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Should be prepared. The shut offs are being ordered by the state of california so pg and he wants everyone to know this is not the Public Safety shutoff switch happened during high fire threat conditions. The outages are due to a combination of the extreme heat that were experiencing and high energy usage. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now to tell us the records that were broken today and how long this hot weather is going to stick around for years, you can imagine all the people trying to turn up their abc today. These temperatures easily, the hottest of the summer so far and records all around the bay area, not just in a few spots we smashed into many places in the San Francisco 95 degrees that is very hot. Downtown San Francisco. Look at oakland, a 101 degrees a 103 in san jose that was a record in san jose, Half Moon Bay right out there on the waters edge 82 a record a 106 scorching heat in napa one 05 in santa rosa. We were done there more records falling redwood ci
The best thing our customers can do to help prevent going into that stage iii category is to conserve as much energy as possible. You heard it right there, conserve energy. That is going to be the motto during this heatwave we are all dealing with across the bay area. Tonights power emergency is over for now after a series of rolling outages around Northern California this evening that helped stabilize the grid. This started around 6 30 with an order from kauai so. The independent system operator manages the states power grid and it told utilities, like pg e, to shed powerlines because of unusually high demand. Pg e explained in a tweet saying there was strain on the power grid due to excess heat. Pg e began rotating Power Outages at the direction of the state grid operator. 200 to 250,000 customers were affected for about an hour each. This map is from pg es web shot. It shows a snapshot of the situation at 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more, the orange dots
Its still in the 80s right now. Whats ahead for our weekend people are hot. Heat wave . People are frustrated. Ill show you exactly what to we have reports on the heat and the Power Outages it triggered. Expect and some showers going to move close to the bay area. We begin with nbc bay areas ill detail that for you in about seven minutes. Cheryl hurd in foster city. You just got off the phone with pg e. What did they tell you. Reporter they just want to be perfectly clear. This was not a psps, Public Safety power shutoff. Thats what we see during fire season. This was something completely different. This was the state and pg es way to conserve power. Thousands of people here in foster city were without power starting at 7 00, and if could happen again tomorrow. James harris of foster city was just about to settle into his evening routine when the lights went out. Well, with this heat, its pretty brutal without a. C. We opened the windows, the doors, and just kind of enjoyed the outside
Rotating outages began getting underway. Most people have their power back on. While there will be no more rotating outages tonight, we are told, pg e is and ruling out the possibility that it might happen this weekend. Its why they are asking customers to cut back and conserve energy. We would also encourage customers, if they are able to delay in later in the evening household chores like running the washing machine or their dishwasher, or even vacuuming. Just by avoiding those types of things, it will help us have the necessary supply to meet the demand. Californians came accustomed , so to speak, to rolling outages in 2001 when great managers imposed repeated blackouts to deal with an electricity crisis then. This map from pg es website shows a snapshot of the situation around 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more. The orange dots are 500 or more pg e customers. Not easy dealing with this kind of power outage when its so hot. You need air conditioning. But it